Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some weeks later Ambassador Luce mentioned the ugly word to a friend in the Central Intelligence Agency. On a routine trip to Naples he checked with the Navy physicians. Suddenly the gravity of the situation hit home. On their own, the Navy doctors had already sent their findings and laboratory specimens to the topflight laboratories of the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. On the Navy's records the patient was fictitiously identified as Seaman Jones. Back to Italy went the report: Seaman Jones is a victim of arsenic poisoning. The news was relayed to Ambassador Luce while...
Southeast Asia. Pakistan, hard-hit by a rice famine, asked the U.S. to set up a food bank stocked with 1.000,000 tons of wheat and rice in Pakistani territory. From it Pakistan and other countries in the region could borrow in emergencies. For a U.S. burdened by wheat and rice surpluses, the plan was attractive if it could be carried out without disrupting Southeast Asia's touchy rice economy. At State the Pak-plan was taken "under active consideration...
POTATO SHORTAGE is sending prices to highest level in 40 years. On Chicago market, California red potatoes currently bring $10 to $10.50 per 100 lbs., up $4 since May and $7 higher than year ago at this time; Maine potato futures last week hit new high for this year...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TiME, April...
Point of View. In Plainview, Tex., after she was ticketed for backing out of a parking space into an oncoming car, Housewife Sarah Ona Baxter told the judge: "I think it's a crying shame that you give me a ticket and not the man I hit. He could see me backing out a lot better than I could...