Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life-and-how-other-people-do-it kind of romance literature, Italian love magazines called "fumetti," come adorned with countless real life pictures. These picture books show romantic adventure played out in photographic flesh as well as mere words. Written and photographed in the middle of the week, they hit the newsstands on Friday. By Saturday all Italy is ready for the next installment...
...Republican Party recapture Congress. He was active in persuading Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to run against Senator Warren Magnuson, in talking Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...novel from which this picture is drawn, he hoped it might prove to be a sort of Uncle Tom's Cabin of the fight racket, a body blow to one of the least savory survivals of slavery in U.S. society: the tradition of the chattel athlete. Author Schulberg hit hard, but he was striking at bulletproof-vested interests, and in the nine years since he made his attack, these interests (on evidence adduced in recent investigations) seem to have grown even stronger. This picture will not seriously weaken them, but it will hang a terrific mouse on the public...
Four unearned runs crossed the plate in the fourth on only one hit. Rossano and Cleary walked, and Simourian followed with a double-play grounder to third. The third sacker, hurried, heaved the ball into right field to allow Rossano to score. Then Cleary and Simourian engineered a double steal, with Cleary sliding across the plate as Simourian was safe at second on the first of his three stolen bases...
After Botsford walked, Dick Fisher hit a towering drive to right which should have gone for a home run. But the lame-legged left fielder was knocked off stride by Penn catcher Bill Schuck, and he missed the plate. The relay reached home in time to tag out Fisher before he could retrace his steps...