Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white woman jailed at the same time on a forgery charge testified that she saw Treloar walk into the cell and hit Daniel "ten or twelve times" with a club. Another white prisoner testified that on another occasion the sheriff caught Daniel "hollering out a window," clubbed him "three or four times." Respected Dr. Maubry McMillan, summoned at midnight to treat the stricken Daniel in jail, said Treloar told him: "I had to tap him on the head." Another physician testified that Daniel died nine days later of a brain hemorrhage...
Dulles and Kubitschek hit it off famously from the start. Kubitschek had thought out his Operation Pan-American, presented it forcefully at their first meeting, in the gilt study of Laranjeiras Palace the day after Dulles arrived. Its gist: 1) a strong re-establishment of Pan-American unity, with Latin America's importance to the U.S. and the free world clearly emphasized; 2) a ten-year program, coordinated by a central agency, to raise Latin American productivity and living standards, thereby throw up a barrier against Communist penetration...
...fans - along with happy NBC executives, satisfied advertisers and fellow entertainers whom his show helped to success - think that Jack Paar should be precisely what he is: a first-rate, refreshingly different TV performer who in a single year has come out of nowhere and made a huge hit of a special kind of entertainment. What Paar brings into American living rooms five nights a week is both more and less than a comedy, variety or chatter show - it is a special show business blend that Paartisans consider uniquely satisfying...
...Outs. In Trenton, N.J., trusties at New Jersey State Prison, sent into the street to retrieve home runs hit over the wall during an intramural ball game, called police to stop kids from stealing the baseballs before the trusties could get to them...
Ultimate Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...