Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...
...closed strong. It was away from the post with The Taming of the Shrew, a brisk Shakespearean gallop which showed Maurice Evans at the top of his form as the impetuous Petruchio. while Lilli Palmer gave smouldering life to the imperious Kate. Staged with wit and imagination by The Hit Parade's William Nichols and costumed brilliantly by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Shrew was one of the best of Maurice Evans' productions...
Along with violence and threats, the News was hit by reader complaints and cancellations. In February circulation showed a loss for the first time in years. Early in March the county Democratic convention passed a resolution denouncing the News as the "carpetbagger press." In electing delegates to the state convention, the group pointedly rejected Editor O'Dowd, who ran 45th in a field...
PUBLIC PAYROLLS are still climbing, despite all efforts to cut down on federal, state and local employees, says the Census Bureau. For October 1955, the last month for which figures are available, the total public payroll hit an alltime record 7,432,000 civilians, up 200,0000 from October 1954. Salaries: $2.3 billion per month...
...Mobilgas marks. Not only are the cars tuned for a peak performance, but the drivers make test runs of the course, checking and timing for red lights, bad grades, etc. Young Alsbury did his preliminary homework so well that in the whole race, studded with 53 traffic lights, he hit not a single one that...