Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squinting down the highway, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, at the wheel of a potato-laden tractor-trailer, saw the old flat-bed lumbering into the intersection, hit his brakes in a 147-ft. skid. The heavy tractor slammed into the rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including...
Hastings and Stahura have paced the team at bat, while the Elis' heaviest threat is fleet centerfielder Ray Lamontagne, who hit. 367 in the league and stole 11 bases...
...barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...
Because U.S. Borax's expansion will not hit its full stride before the company's fiscal year ends in September, President Gerstley foresees earnings for this year "about the same" as last year's $1.47 a share-a healthy 13.5% on its net sales. But he expects to step them up in the future, has set up a $1,000,000 research center to discover more uses for boron. To make sure that he can provide the borax, he planned the present expansion so that production can easily be stepped up another 25% to 50% for only...
...book. Horab can only be described in superlatives of wealth, intelligence, vitality and childishness. He drives his Bentley at top speed, depending for guidance on his passengers ("What's that coming up on the left, Mick? Good God, you should have warned me minutes ago. It nearly hit us"). He flies his deHavilland Moth with the aplomb of Wrong Way Corrigan. Aiming for France, he makes a forced landing instead on a race track in Ireland. Even when he hears a native's brogue, Greenbloom insists that he is near Chantilly, dismisses the fellow as talking "some kind...