Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak Williams team had held the varsity to a one-goal lead at the end of the second period and even had led the Crimson for twelve minutes of the game. Williams goalie Dick Marr saved 34 shots in the two periods, and untold more had missed the cage, hit the posts, and even hit Crimson players in front of the cage...
...Hamburg, Germany, anyone can dial 4166 and hear hit records of the week. Most startling selection: Louis Armstrong playing and croaking a catchy 4/4 time ditty called Mack the Knife...
...grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria of the evening," wrote one critic...
...appearance of this song as an American jazz hit marks the end of a remarkable odyssey; Mack the Knife, originally the prologue of Kurt Weill's famed Threepenny Opera, was first heard in Berlin 28 years ago. It also marks a remarkable revival, on records, of Kurt Weill's other music-the legacy of a strange, half-angry, half-sentimental genius...
...cars (under 11 ft., v. 13½ ft. for oldtime cars) are jointed so that each bends in two places, helping the train hit speeds of 95 m.p.h. on curves on which older trains must hold to 70. The train has hit 110 m.p.h. on test runs. Passengers get a somewhat more jiggly ride than in heavier trains, but there are compensations: air conditioning, a television screen in the lounge that gives passengers an engineer's-eye view of the road ahead...