Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as schoolchildren slammed textbooks shut and hit the beckoning streets with shouts and shenanigans, New York's finest, 23,657 strong, hit the streets to do battle...
Early in September 1954 nine young Algerian exiles met in a rented house outside Bern, Switzerland to plan the scattered hit-and-run raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last...
...humidity; it was the heat-the searing, scorching, scalding heat of an Indian summer. Unforgettable in any year, the hot spell of 1958 was worse than any for a decade in New Delhi, half a century in Andhra Pradesh. The thermometer hit 121°F.* in the pilgrim center of Bhadrachalam; it hovered around 100°F. in Delhi even at night. Except in the cool hills to which only a few could escape, a relentless sun licked the country like a flamethrower. And from the sun came tragedy...
...Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas advancemen as the biggest thing to hit Broadway since asphalt-a "dual premiere." As thousands cheered and celebrities glittered among searchlights, the picture opened in two major movie palaces at once...
...Hit the Silk. In Sydney, Australia, when Robert Owen leaned over a balcony to help movers hoist furniture to his new apartment, the railing snapped and he fell 15 feet into...