Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balance of trade hit an astonishing $495 million in Brazil's favor, "mostly due to exceptional coffee sales and to the government's firm policy of defending the market against pressures apt to cause a fall in prices abroad...
Opera's cheeriest cherub, Baritone Robert Weede, 53, euphoric title roler of the Broadway hit musical The Most Happy Fella, recalled his own slow rise in music. "Singing success must be gained too quickly nowadays," said he. His most significant case in point: bullish Movie Tenor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza...
...worked hard to prove herself a prophet. She had started out "putting like a plumber," but on the second round she bore down, scored a fine 71 (one under men's par, four under women's par), hit the halfway mark tied for second with Wiffi Smith, 20, a broad-based, freckle-nosed newcomer to the pro ranks from St. Clair, Mich. Just one stroke in front, San Diego's Mickey Wright, 22, had a 36-hole total...
...tense third round last week, Patty Berg dropped temporarily to third, two strokes behind 19-year-old Amateur Anne Quast, one stroke back of Mickey Wright. But on the final round the old pro stuck a shamrock in her hat and hit men's par on every hole except three. On those she shot birdies. She finished with a flashy 69. Her 72-hole total of 296 made her Titleholders champ, three strokes in front of faltering Anne Quast. It pushed her 1957 winnings to $3,863, highest of the lady pros...
...device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself was experimenting with pumps when he hit on the chilling technique. In October 1952 Detroit's Dodrill announced that he had used a pump developed in cooperation with General Motors research engineers to bypass the left side of the heart. In May 1953 Gibbon announced the breakthrough: his heart-lung machine was ready at last...