Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after Ike's talk about neutralism hit the news wires, the State Department began to get anxious calls from some of its best friends in Embassy Row. While Ike's off-the-cuff slip about alliances' was explainable, it was obvious that some U.S. allies were shaken by what seemed a new, friendly emphasis on neutralism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rushed to set things right in a speech delivered at Iowa State College...
...Phrasemaker Stevenson, the phrase was trite, but it was true. On that morning last March the political figure of Adlai Stevenson, hit hard in Minnesota by Estes Kefauver, was lying flat on the canvas, and the count was almost up to ten. Many a knowing politician and political reporter thought that Candidate Stevenson might never get up. But he did, and the fight that he began that day turned into a dramatic political comeback. Last week, with a decisive victory in California's Democratic presidential primary, won after a hard fight, Stevenson was once again the front-runner...
...made to the Party Congress last February, and (though barred from the secret session for Russians only) had read it in transcript. On returning to their own countries they remained silent about it, while inaugurating piecemeal efforts to downgrade Stalin. Last week, as large slabs of the speech hit the front pages of non-Communist European newspapers, the storm broke over the heads of the cautious...
...true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro...
...bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that something worse than a stomach upset had hit the President. Calling in Walter Reed's Dr. Francis Pruitt to help, Dr. Snyder deduced by noontime that the President had acute ileitis.. This diagnosis, one of more than a dozen possibilities suggested by the symptoms, could not have been confirmed in the White House bedroom without...