Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limb. While making no percentage predictions, he correctly forecast an Ike landslide and added that Ike would take all the big industrial states. Moreover he pinpointed the newest political trend: the breakup of the former Democratic majorities in the nation's big cities. But Gallup and Roper hit as close to perfection as anybody could reasonably expect. In their final forecasts, published just before Election Day, the Big Two had Ike landsliding with 59.5% (Gallup) and 60% (Roper). Actual 1956 result: Ike 57.7%. Gallup correctly predicted the shifts to the G.O.P. among Negroes, labor, and big-city dwellers. Although...
Modified Moorish. Songstress Valente first burst on the U.S. scene last winter with a brassy but strangely appealing version of Malagueña (Decca). Her high, uninhibited voice soared with the echoing strings, and the record became a hit (TIME, Feb. 7, 1955). Unfortunately, her only U.S. appearance at the time was a single shot on TV, and few admirers were able to find out just why the girl with an Italian name should be singing a Spanish song in German...
...consisted of a Normanesque" castle" (which Architect Eero Saarinen once described as "Mexican Ivanhoe") and a few other buildings that had belonged to the defunct Middlesex University Medical School. At first the founders hoped that Albert Einstein would consent to take over the presidency. But when Einstein declined, they hit upon the happy choice of Historian Abram Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission...
...sorted the answers of both sexes, spewed forth a couple of its favorites: John Caran, 28, a Los Angeles adman, and pretty, brown-eyed Barbara Smith, 23, a receptionist. In September the couple saw each other for the first time, before the People Are Funny camera, and, boasts Linkletter, "hit it off great...
...policy of the government, no less than the policy of the opposition, can be supported with Christian convictions." Said the Archdeacon of Bath: "If some one over a number of years pinches me and kicks me and bruises me, is it any wonder that I land out and hit him down...