Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public climax of the anniversary gala-the four-hour parade through Red Square during which the Soviet armed forces traditionally show off their new weapons. This year, after Khrushchev's talk of intercontinental missiles and the persistent rumor that the Russians had sent up a rocket timed to hit the moon Nov. 7, the parade was an anticlimax. Though Rome's Communist daily L'Unità had confidently predicted that the day would be fine, because "Soviet experts are capable of creating good weather," the Moscow sky was so overcast that the scheduled Red air force flypast...
...words from Washington sometimes sounded that way. Stepping to the rostrum at the same meeting, William McChesney Martin Jr., the independent-minded boss of the independent-minded Federal Reserve, made clear that he thinks a business decline must inevitably follow an inflationary surge of the sort that has hit the U.S. in the past two years. And he gave no hint that the Fed was getting ready to change its tight-money policy in order to stop the dip. Said Martin: "If you think that any time a decline reaches a certain point, we can just step in and stop...
THRIFTY AMERICANS are putting more into long-term savings than ever before. Institute of Life Insurance says that savings accounts, insurance policies and U.S. savings-bond holdings of average American household hit $5,100 at midyear v. $5,000 in 1956 and $4,000 in 1950. In 1957's first half, U.S. total swelled by nearly $9 billion to total of $253 billion...
...They stood in a ring around me and just grinned. They were the meanest grins I ever saw. I was scared. Then the biggest one hit me in the face, and they all jumped on me. It's hard to say how many they were; it was pretty dark. I recognized the meanest one--he was kind of short--from a picture in the newspapers. They knocked me down and then kicked me. I can't remember anything else. It was awful...
...kind of funny, so I ducked into an alley to keep out of their way. They ran after me and stood around me in a circle. I asked what they wanted, but they didn't say anything. They just kept grinning at me. Then one of them hit me in the side, and another hit me behind the head. I fell down. but they just kept hitting me. They never said a word the whole time...