Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Empire State's meadows and mountains were greening into summer, Democrats were preening with unqualified exuberance. In the fight for the statehouse, they had an unquestionable advantage, i.e., they held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them...
...53rd General Hospital has been hit repeatedly by shots aimed at Nationalist convoys and planes. I went to see young Captain Kua China, the hospital's only real surgeon, who on my previous visit seemed a rock of physical endurance and calm. Now it hurts you to see him. He is exhausted. His eyes are vacant and always near tears. His hand is still steady at the operating table, but trembles when he lights a cigarette. "Every day and every night shells fall here," he says wearily. "We've had to put all patients except the walking wounded...
Roaring north out of the Pacific last week came the worst storm to hit Japan in 24 years. In twelve dreadful hours, Typhoon Ida swept clear up the northern half of Honshu, Japan's biggest and richest island. The torrential rains caused widespread floods and some 1,900 landslides, left half a million homeless. In Tokyo the Emperor's 300 cherished carp were flushed out of the Imperial Palace moat into surrounding streets. (Tokyo cops, splashing in hot pursuit, saved most of the carp as well as the Imperial swans.) On the "Japanese Riviera"-the mountainous Izu Peninsula...
...news struck the nation like a sonic boom. Canada had worked long and hard since 1945 to build up its own jet aircraft industry, hoped to hit the big time with its swift CF-105, possibly even sell some to the U.S. Air Force. High costs and the missile age made it impossible. To equip the R.C.A.F. with Arrows would cost something like $2 billion, and the first operational models would not be in service until 1961. A better bet was to spend the money on a setup like the U.S.'s SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic...
back to the East And I hit him a blow on the ridge...