Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet & Sour Polka. In Peking, Radio Peking announced a new song hit in Red China: The Community Dining Hall Is Too Good to Tell...
Radical proposals of Harris' plan were hit earlier by Wallace McDonald '44, Director of the Financial Aid Office and Fred L. Glimp '50, Director of Freshman Scholarships...
...really know how to stop him. I haven't been able to catch up to him yet." Los Angeles Linebacker Dick Daugherty, one of the surest tacklers in football, recalls the day last year that he zeroed in on Brown for a tackle: "I really hit him hard-bounced him back. It would have stopped anyone else, but not Jimmy. He took off again to the right and ran 70 yards to a touchdown as if nothing had happened." Onetime Philadelphia Coach Earle ("Greasy") Neale says: "He's the best back in the history of pro football...
Patate (adapted by Irwin Shaw from the French of Marcel Achard) was a big Paris hit, though nothing in the quickly folding Broadway version seemed to link it with Paris at all. It is a tale of two men, a heel who has grown rich and his down-at-heel patate or fall guy. When Patate learns that the heel has become his adopted daughter's lover, he at last has a chance to even up the score; but as top dog, he proves the worst flop...
Said Research Director Edmund Mennis of Philadelphia's Wellington Fund: "The industries hardest hit by the 1958 recession (autos, textiles, steels, chemicals, metals, machinery and rubber) are expected to have the sharpest recovery...