Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the Japanese intended to invade Southeast Asia rather than hit the Russians in Siberia. Result: the Russians were able to unleash their Far East army when the Germans had virtually captured Moscow...
Sunspots are storms in the sun's surface layer of bright, turbulent gas. They send out blasts of radiation and high-speed particles that hit the earth's atmosphere and form ionized (electrified) layers at high altitudes. Ordinary sunlight does this too, but sunspots beef up the layers and make them strong enough to divert TV signals that would normally pass through into outer space...
Shares for All. Like most of today's great corporations, G.M. achieved it because giants of old had laid the foundations with big, visionary ideas. The man who founded General Motors was William C. Durant, an ex-carriage, ex-bicycle, ex-wagon maker who first hit the jackpot by backing an auto designer named David Buick. In 1905, Billy Durant capitalized Buick for a staggering $10 million, three years later tried to corner the auto manufacturing business. (Henry Ford agreed to sell for $8,000,000, but at the last minute Durant's bankers backed away from...
...speech, like most of the important ones in this clever melodrama, does not quite carry the intended conviction. The trouble seems to be that Bridget Boland, who wrote the script as well as the play (a hit in London) on which it is based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that...
...there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...