Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grazed Nixon's neck. "Go home, Nixon!" a youth screamed into the Vice President's ear. "I'll go home," Nixon answered, "but first why don't you come and talk with me? You are cowards! Come here and talk." But by then, stones had hit some of Nixon's aides. He withdrew. Valcarcel & Co. stampeded to the Plaza San Martin and shredded the flowers that formed the U.S. flag in the wreath. Catching up with Nixon again as he walked toward his hotel, they spat on him and threw garbage...
Biggest single age group in the clinic's range from eleven to 21 is made up of baffled, questioning 14-year-olds, who seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...
...biggest doctors' strike since the war to hit Austria's socialized medicine, which is 39 years old and covers 75% of the population. As before, the doctors wanted more money, and few healthy Viennese disputed their demands. The hospital physicians, who average only $80 a month,* have dickered for eight months for raises that would give them $6.40 more. When officials offered only $3.20, they walked out. To tend such urgent cases as childbirth, the strikers left 300 doctors on duty round the clock, promised full care in any emergency. Veterinarians promptly mounted a sympathy strike that left...
Wall Street, which has long since discounted much of the bad news, put on a buying spurt. Led by steels, rails, oils and aircraft, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed two points higher during the week to hit a new high for the year at 462.56, nearly 43 points better than the recession low of last October. Poor earnings were easily shrugged off. At the annual meeting of Radio Corp. of America, President John L. Burns gave 1,275 stockholders of the world's biggest electronics company the bad news about a 29.7% first-quarter decline...
...unfortunate freshman got hit directly by a waterbomb. A Yard cop, standing near the soaked victim, commented, "You got more than Nixon got--you're the hero...