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Word: hitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, it was Stevenson who did most of the talking,* and the farther he traveled, the harder he hit. And the harder he hit, the better the spirited audiences seemed to like it. The President, he told a capacity house in the Seattle auditorium, responded to his own suggestion that the H-bomb tests be curbed with "sneers and astonishing distortion of what I said." In Oakland he added: "I'll let the [American people] judge whether it is a 'theatrical gesture' ... to suggest a safe way to end the deadly competition to build and explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Fury in the West | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...savagely attacks Joe Clark, describing him as a "bubblegum candidate" whose membership in Americans for Democratic Action means involvement "in a powerful leftwing and underground activity." When he is accused of unfair tactics, Big Red merely snorts: "You can't hit Joe Clark below the belt because he is all belly and no head." Midnightly, Jim Duff can still be found shaking hands in hotel lobbies or sweating away on the next day's speeches, which he insists on writing himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Big Red & the Grundykins | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...most understanding. The way things are going you simply can't afford to be associated with a hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ex-Partners | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...King and I. The lavish musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TiME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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