Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every meal became an occasion for intellectual talk. "Since the first night," says one student, "we have scarcely talked business to each other -though that was all we had to talk about the first night." To their own surprise, the biggest hit was the poetry readings by ex-Rhodes Scholar Edward Weismiller. "I pay $2.50 for a book," said an insurance company vice president, "and I get $2.50's worth of good out of it. But that Weismiller gets $10,000 out of the same book." Added Gorden E. Willett, a Farmers Insurance Group office manager: "I used...
...Pitcher Ruben Gomez. Righthander Gomez, who combines a fast lip with his fast ball, replied in kind, and Adcock charged toward the mound. Gomez once more put his faith in his pitcher's arm. His aim was ornery and his control was only fair-this time he hit Adcock on the thigh. But Gomez did not wait for the call; he turned tail and scuttled for the clubhouse. For a few minutes both teams milled about the Giants' bench, unminding the organist's emergency rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. Then the game went on (Giants...
...Lest the American League be overlooked, Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams walloped his 400th home run in a game with the Kansas City Athletics, then expressed his pleasure by spitting at the assembled writers in the press box. Just in case it was misunderstood, Ted repeated his hit-and-spit performance a few days later. Reaching automatically for their record books, the sportswriters credited Ted with a new major-league record for public expectoration...
...good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into a stakes-winning thoroughbred...
FORD CONTINENTAL SALES have eased to point where operations will be consolidated with Lincoln Division. Though Continental aims to hit 2,500-car target this year, company has decided to cut costs by combining all nonmanufacturing operations with Lincoln, and give Continental Boss William C. Ford...