Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hit a happy medium in education without mottoing "Excelsior Dewey" or "Hi-Ho Science...
...Great Lakes steel towns and Far West mine and timber communities, there were anticipated slumps, together with demands for extended unemployment compensation quickly. But in the eyes of most voters the economic picture is far from dismal. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: "The recession hasn't hit this part of the country yet." Reported Indiana Republican William G. Bray: "Recession talk is not as prevalent as I thought." Even in Florida, hard hit by a citrus freeze and a bad tourist season, Democratic Senator George Smathers was "most surprised" at the lack of interest in the recession...
...reported California Republican Bob Wilson. "I found more insistence upon tax cuts in Washington than at home," said Maine's Coffin. That old tax cutter, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, found the support he was looking for, but Republican Congressman Robert Michel of hard-hit Peoria (farm machinery) changed his mind, said he would vote against an immediate cut. Said Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills: "Everyone would welcome a tax cut, of course, but I haven't detected any great demand." Added Nebraska's Arthur Lewis Miller: "I was against a tax cut before I came home...
Frightened, Cheryl fled to the kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...
...batters had trouble with Oeler be cause they were swinging for the distance, instead of trying to punch his pitches, as Cleary did with one out in the ninth for the second varsity hit...