Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turn to the Right. Washington was a wonderful but bewildering place for the Wagners. When they first arrived, says Bob Jr., the father "suggested we go up and have our first good look at the Capitol. We left the Mayflower Hotel and hit a pretty confident course, but we took a right instead of a left. Instead of getting to the Capitol, we ended up in Georgetown." That was probably the first and last time that Robert Wagner Sr. steered a course to the right: a New Dealer in principle before the New Deal was born in fact...
...walled building of yellow sandstone hidden among dusty eucalyptus trees, the nooses were hung, the traps set to deal out the stern punishment. With Koutsoftas and Panayides on the scaffold stood 23-year-old Stelios Mavrommatis, sentenced to death for shooting at two R.A.F. men (he did not hit them). Fearing a Cypriot demonstration, British troops set up radio posts and roadblocks to guard every approach to the prison. For most of the night there was only deathly quiet. Then, sometime before dawn, through the muffling thickness of the prison walls a macabre chant broke the silence. Some 170 political...
Despite the difficulties local students faced, the non-University residents have been even harder hit. A city hall official, who receives countless complaints daily, reports that because of fixed incomes and families, these residents can not begin to compete with students in the race for reasonable rentals...
...Late the Phalaropeis an excellent stage adaptation of Alan Paton's novel about love and the consequences of withholding it in Africa, or anywhere. Finlay Currie, as the upholder of a coldly rigid morality, is outstanding. It remains at the Colonial only one more week before becoming a hit in New York...
During the trial run of a play the question of whether it will become a hit on Broadway always arises. In the case of Too Late the Phalarope, the answer can--and ought...