Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thought you might be interested in the following "Duffyism." The day your Duffy Daugherty issue hit the stands, he said that when he was asked if he wasn't afraid his picture on TIME would bring him bad luck, he replied: "It didn't seem to hurt Nasser much...
Once upon another time, Estes-lestes went into the woods in search of an issue, and the idea hit him in the head like a mighty H-bomb, so he naturally decided to tell everybody about it. As he stood before reporters, he told them: "The force from the explosion from a large hydrogen bomb is getting so stupendous and so dangerous that the maximum force available to us right now from a concussion of hydrogen bombs is ... sufficient to blow the earth off its axis by 16 degrees, which would affect the seasons." The reporters asked...
...noteworthy popular support. He rode into the vice-presidency in 1948 under President Juan Manuel Galvez (the rebel major's father). In 1954, when presidential elections ended in a no-majority stalemate, Lozano happened to be sitting in for the ailing President Galvez, and seized power. Last August, hit one-two by an attempted barracks uprising and a case of high blood pressure, he turned over his authority briefly to a junta headed by General Rodriguez, then persuaded Galvez to stand in again as chief of state and went to Miami for a medical check up and long rest...
...Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked for a leak. Fumes were hurting his eyes, like. As the manager complied, a mob of gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped the singer on the back of his ducktailed coiffure. The blow made Elvis real mad. Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager with a looping right...
...night. The valve had to be durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping his son alive until Holter could find his material. Finally Holter hit upon silicone plastic fins in a stainless steel body, and a plastic-molding company made up several sample valves...