Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time of imagery and inner turmoil can be heard again in another hit...
...nightmare began when he hit $99,000. Since then, he has given close to 100 interviews, made guest appearances on other TV shows, parried dinner invitations from as far away as Boston and Philadelphia, put up with the same questions from strangers in streets, subways and restaurants ("Whaddaya gonna do with all that money?" "How does that game work anyway?"), and succeeded in getting his telephone number changed just as the phone was about to drive him out of his apartment. From The Bronx to Basutoland, fans have deluged him with 2,000 letters, including 20 outright proposals of marriage...
...Hit where it hurt, Gonzales went to work to overcome his love of calories, late hours and long snoozes. He practiced hard, played his way back up to the salary scale, last year made $40,000 for demoralizing ex-Wimbledon and ex-U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, 74 matches to 27. He pushed his game to such a high peak that when Kramer tried to talk Australian Lew Hoad into turning pro this year, Hoad snapped back: "I don't think I'm ready. Pancho probably would chew...
...Green River, hampered by inexperienced management and inadequate equipment, was hard hit by the post-Korea steel dip, ran up an overburdening debt of $16 million. For two years creditors tried to marry off Green River with 20 other companies. Nobody wanted Green River...
Every year he had a new sales hit. In 1950 he mass-produced Germany's first ultra-high-frequency radios, in 1951 its first pushbutton tuning. In 1953 he startled West Germany by selling a TV set for less than 1,000 marks ($238). In 1954 he brought out the first tape recorders priced under 500 marks, sold 100,000 of them in two years. Then Grundig introduced his small, low-priced "Stenorette" tape dictating machine ($169.50 in the U.S.), sold 100,000 in 18 months...