Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first look, many political observers interpreted the lawmakers' rebellion as another direct hit on the scabrous House of Long. But a second look may have been more meaningful. There had been hardly any effort to block the adjournment; in fact, the motions for adjournment were made and roared through by many of Long's own legislative leaders and henchmen. Ole Earl's own reaction was another clue. Rushing half-shaved from his barber's chair to the skyscraper state capitol, he arrived just as the adjournment vote was being tallied, made a speech which...
...Navy hero of the Pacific sea war, Admiral Halsey hit the Japanese as unpredictably and as hard. Two months after Pearl Harbor, he took the offensive in his flagship Enterprise, raided the Marshall Islands; two months after that, he launched Jimmy Doolittle's Army B-25s from Hornet against Tokyo. "We get away with it because we violate the traditional rules," he grinned, and the Navy loved him for his craggy jaw and bushy eyebrow's, his baseball cap, his salty determination to ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse through Tokyo...
Rich Rebels. When Castro's wild economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...
Last week, adding its 100th U.S. dealer, Toyota announced that U.S. sales will hit 350 this month. Toyota will start bringing in station wagons this month (price: $2,500), is building an $18 million plant near Nagoya to meet the demand...