Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
Brazil's Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his pretty wife arrived in Washington last week for a state visit that turned into an immediate personal hit. Goulart, one of the most colorful and controversial of Brazil's traditionally high-voltage politicians, was welcomed warmly by Vice President Nixon, talked at length with Secretary of State Dulles, dropped in to chat with President Eisenhower, conferred earnestly with A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany, and still had time to attend all the formal dinners and receptions that go with a state visit...
...Putting its new "get tough" policy into effect with a vengeance, the National Collegiate Athletic Association handed down stiff penalties to six member colleges for a wide variety of recruiting violations. Hit hardest, Auburn was put on three-year probation, forbidden to participate in N.C.A.A. championship and invitation events for two years, forbidden to participate in the N.C.A.A.'s nationally televised football series. The Universities of Florida and Louisville drew two years' probation apiece; Texas A. & M., Mississippi College and the University of Kansas all drew a year in the penalty...
...York skyline in 1952, Tambi thought of erecting an intercontinental "skyscraper of poetry." Poetry London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first...
...pounded Suffolk at will as four men hit home runs for the Crimson team...