Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call, he hit the deck with a resounding whack as a touchy petty officer slashed the cords on his hammock...
...with Adenauer and free enterprise, the big Ruhr coal-mine managers' association had announced a stiff, $1-a-ton price boost. Berating the coal barons for "stupidity" that reflected "the political instinct of horses," Erhard told off 250 of them at an emergency meeting in Essen: "This has hit like a bomb. You have abused the government. Your price increase is out of the question...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, and a large glistening gathering of Big Rich. Reminisced Harry Truman: back in 1943, he told Sam he wanted to nominate him for the vice-presidency, got a dirty look. "I thought he was going to hit me. If Sam had done what I wanted him to do, I'd have gotten out of all the trouble I ever got into in my life, and I'd still be in the Senate having the time of my life...
...education and business administration, a graduate school, a school of nursing, and a junior college in Las Vegas. But ever since he got Biologist Frank Richardson fired for accusing him of lowering academic standards (TIME, June 15, 1953), he has been the center of the bitterest storm ever to hit the university...
...Pajama Game. The bouncy and bawdy musical about congenial labor-management strife in a Dubuque nightwear factory, even better than the stage hit; with John Raitt and Doris Day (TIME, Sept...