Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing almost broke up right then, as reporters bolted for telephones. And as soon as Engine Charlie's latest hit the front pages, the predictable sound-off began in virtually every state. Some called Charlie's statement asinine, illadvised, ridiculous, foolish and absurd. Georgia's governor rapped it as "a dastardly slur," Wyoming's as "an un-American utterance." Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 69, president of the potent National Guard Association, called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state...
...when the plane lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left turn over the East River. Only twelve seconds after the takeoff, it steepened its turn and began to settle. Seconds later it hit the ground, burst into flames. Plight 823 was down on tiny Rikers Island in the middle of the river...
Even moviegoers flocking to see Actress Ingrid Bergman in her current hit role as Anastasia have had to leave their theaters with the question unanswered: Was the bewildered, scarred and unstrung girl who claimed to have escaped alive from that Uralian basement really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the Czar's fourth daughter? For 35 years the question has been asked and answered, but until last week never officially settled...
...buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours a day, won $3,000 in a year. Says Whipkey: "He figures the percentage to the last decimal. On the TV show, he follows the old Black Jack rule, 'Always hit 16, always stick on 18.' Once on TV when Charlie reached 17, I told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright...
Cars which now average 3,450 lbs. will use more lightweight aluminum and magnesium, will thus get no heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports...