Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
...Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption" that the cause of the disease in people getting shots from the six batches was the vaccine itself, promptly tightened up its previously hit-or-miss testing methods to make sure that no more live virus got through...
Some Air Force and Navy interceptor planes are already using air-to-air guided missiles (with electronic or infra-red detection) to boost their chances of a hit, e.g., the Air Force's three types of the Hughes Falcon and the Navy's Sidewinder, but such missiles must make a direct hit to kill, can be deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie...
While Australia was still blinking at Ilsa's tremendous race, brother Jon got up on the starting block for the men's 880-yd. freestyle, gazed calmly at his opponents (who included three Olympic swimmers), and hit the water as if fired from the starting pistol. Flat out, he thrashed home in 9:17.7, 1.5 sec. faster than the old world record held by the U.S.'s George Breen, who set the mark when he was 21. Konrads' furious freestyling also smashed Breen's world record for the 800 meters...
Russia's Sputniks have produced one of those times, as was evidenced last week by an attack of jumpiness-to-conclusions that hit two U.S. wire services, and by a statesman's post-mortem on Western reporting of last month's NATO conference...