Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...
When the Chicago Tribune's WGN-TV announced a showing of the film Martin Luther last December, protests poured in from Roman Catholic viewers, and the station canceled the film because of "the emotional reaction" (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week the counterreaction hit WGN.*Armed with 150,000 signatures and the backing of 43 groups, mostly Protestant, the Action Committee for Freedom of Religious, Expression formally asked the Federal Communications Commission for a public hearing to challenge WGN's right to a license. Said the petition: "Those to whom the film is distasteful may turn...
...spite of the eccentricity of Shaw's will, no one at first bothered to contest it. Shaw had not left too much cash, and the huge (70%) death duties had yet to be paid. Then along came the Broadway hit My Fair Lady, which has brought in $2,000 a week in royalties, has paid the death duty, upped the estate's value to $2,000,000. By last month so much money was involved that Britain's Public Trustee Office decided to test the will in court. Was the rewriting of the alphabet really a legitimate...
...Carole Waters, whose widowed mother works as a U.S. Treasury Department messenger in Washington, D.C., managed to earn only a B-minus average at Illinois' Rockford College, but she made such a hit with her schoolmates that they elected her president of the Student Government Association...
...ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting for paint's sake...