Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
Standing erect, with hands stretched out toward his admirers, Nixon was hit repeatedly by bouquet after bouquet. So heavy was the rain of flowers that four times the ZIS had to be swept clean of them to leave room for its occupants...
...plant avidly takes up strontium, including radioactive strontium 90 (TIME, Oct. 27) and that port of New York authorities had detected radioactivity in Japanese tea. Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, grows more than half Japan's tea, and the industry was already ailing before radiation sickness hit...
Machine-tool orders, prime indicator of industrial activity, rose 38% above May to hit a new two-year high in June, one of the most significant gains since the orders started to turn up last fall. The June total of $67.3 million was more than double last June's, pushed six-month orders to $307.2 million v. last year's $179.8 million...
Highland Park, Ill., Tenthouse Theater: Last season's Broadway hit, Rashomon, with last season's Broadway star, Sessue Hayakawa...