Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their victory and Democratic dollars rolled heavily into the campaign fund-but the party's chief candidate conversely seemed to be having his troubles. It was characteristic of Adlai Stevenson's week that whenever he loosened up and turned on the charm, he was a snappy hit; but before TV cameras and big audiences Adlai sadly sagged...
...meteorologists who record the birth and upbringing of weather disturbances named her Emma, after Jane Austen's gentle heroine, the one who was so much in love with Mr. Knightley. At 4 one morning, Emma hit Okinawa with all the fury of a full-grown Pacific typhoon...
Most of these antiprotons were "annihilated" (turned into energy) when they hit an ordinary positive proton. But occasionally, when an antiproton passed close to an ordinary proton, it merely handed over its negative electric charge. The proton, its positive charge neutralized by a negative one, became an ordinary, chargeless neutron. The antiproton, having lost its negative charge and received nothing in return, also became a chargeless particle, but it did not become a normal neutron. Since its basic "anti-ness" was not changed by the loss of its charge, it became an antineutron with a reversed magnetic field...
...King and I. The lavish musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
Fire Control. In Petersburg, Va., daily target practice was ordered by Police Chief W. E. Traylor after two detectives, hidden in an often-robbed restaurant, watched two gunmen escape after a battle in which 21 shots were fired, no one hit...