Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason No. 4 was that Kohler rested upon his good record as governor and upon Eisenhower's thread-thin coattails. Proxmire shook hands-a million by his own smiling summary-and hit hard at his issues in such vote-catching phrases as "big-business price fixing . . . big steel, big oil, big food . . . big processors hammering down the farmers' income...
...trusteeship of debt-ridden Teamster Local 299 in Detroit. Singlemindedly, he shoved ahead. "In those days," says Hoffa in his rough, staccato voice, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys who tried to break me up got broken up. It was no picnic, but I gave as good...
...strikers, variously hit by the economy's contradictions, have more than higher wages on their minds. Packinghouse workers demanded that the government import more Argentine cattle to provide work. A group of Montevideo doctors struck for duty-free automobiles. Teachers-college students struck for preference in teaching appointments. There is a growing tendency toward brief general strikes in support of particular union's demands. Communists, tolerated by the government, energetically back every strike, prolonging each as long as possible...
...makers and agents nurture promising young singers with the elaborate care that race-track trainers lavish on two-year-olds. When young singers are signed, they usually get new, tongue-tempting names, are advised how to dress and behave before the great public and carted off to woo the hit-making disk jockeys in a well-traveled circuit of key pop cities: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh (neither New York nor Washington is regarded as a reliable pop town). If, as a result, a singer "lights the board" in a key city, the rush to build...
...would lose his balance and fall off the mound on his follow through. So they worked out a compromise: Keegan concentrated on slowing down just a little. It was enough. He beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted 40 valuable minutes of swimming time searching for her pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other...