Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unexpected threat from Cuba's judiciary. While proclaiming "we love democracy," the President had long winked at the activities of a small group of police and military men whose rough stuff and tortures helped to cow the discontented. Three weeks ago, during the "free" period, eleven Havana judges hit at the police for refusing to honor writs of habeas corpus, declaring they had "never seen the administration of Cuban justice so mocked and reviled." A fortnight ago, the judicial attack sharpened. A judge demanded that the police produce in court a captured rebel suspect; when the cops failed...
...light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told you not to talk about that.") When Paar appeared with a new toupee, Dody hit the vulnerable spot: "Don't you look different tonight, Jack?" Once when Jack felt compelled to call Dody down for being late to rehearsal, she rushed up to him in tears and cried: "Why won't you talk to me, Jack? Why do you hate...
...Hit in the Head. Bobby is credited by Annotator Kmoch with "the Game of the Century"- one that chess buffs retrace in slack-jawed admiration. It marked the boy's upset victory over Donald Byrne in last year's Lessing J. Rosenwald tournament. After a safe and careful opening that left him in a cramped position with no particular advantage, Bobby broke up the game with an ingenious exhibition of combination play...
...move, the boy seemed to botch the game. Old Master Sam Reshevsky watched him take one of Byrne's pawns with a knight, and muttered: "Now he's busted." But Bobby knew better. Later he said: "Byrne was playing pretty good, and then I gave him a hit in the head." It was a blow from which Byrne could not recover. After the 27th move, Bobby's mop-up of his opponent's shattered forces was routine...
Stumbling Bull. This calm view of the recession was reflected in normally jittery Wall Street. The bull market had been the first to take fright last year. After hitting a July peak of 522.77 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, only a shadow below the alltime high, the bull started to slip, stumbled to his knees in October, when the average hit 419.79. As a result, shrewd investors have long since discounted the current news...