Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweden, with an economy dependent on oil for half of all fuel needs (compared with 13% for Britain, and only 9% for Germany), has been harder hit by the Suez shutdown than any other European country. Raw material imports already cost 5% more; the government's budgeted $100 million surplus has turned into a deficit...
...Hit "Paper Pacts...
Gaitskell questioned the value of two of the alliances set up with uncommitted countries. While he approved the military implications of the so-called "northern tier" agreement, he criticized attempts to make it into an entire Middle Eastern policy by tying economic aid to it. He also hit the SEATO agreement as a "paper pact," without military effectiveness...
With the hike of room rents by fifteen percent next Fall, the cost of attending the College will hit an all-time high. The average room this year costs $350. With the increase, it will be just over...
...existence in society. Getting along is the problem, not getting ahead. Unlike Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood, they don't surrender; the Young and the Passionate simply slow down. Their responsibility, they realize, is in the end only to themselves, which idea, one can readily see, has probably not hit America...