Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense expenditures for the year (at $34.5 billion) will be some $500 million above the estimate; some other expenses, e.g., the cost of supporting farm prices, have gone up. Anticipated expenditures now stand at $64 billion. But revenue has gone up even more, now is expected to hit approximately the same figure. If the year's income for Social Security funds is included, the ledgers next June 30 are expected to show an actual cash surplus of some $2 billion...
Buzzing on BUtterfield 8. The Broady wiretap case first hit the headlines last February, when police raided an East Side Manhattan apartment and discovered a secret listening post, equipped with the latest recorders and a direct (though unlisted) line to 100,000 telephones that spread like a monstrous run all over the ten-denier silk-stocking district. Two telephone-company employees, Carl Ruh, a tester, and Walter Asmann, a "frame-man" who made cross connections for the company, were found on the premises. They were fired by the company and arrested, along with Warren Shannon, an electrician, in whose name...
Like a medicine show's drumbeat, Khrushchev's insistent appeal hit the Indians' ears. "Judge for yourselves who is your friend and who are your enemies." For the visitors, it was a good note to end on. Packing up the accumulated crockery of three weeks of giftgiving, and leaving behind an accumulation of promises, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin prepared to move on. There was still more work to be done in Afghanistan...
...years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter about Hollywood, which kept him dangling for nearly a decade: "When I did work in pictures, I was always Blinky...
...first period while Middlebury was a man short. Terry O'Malley took a pass from center Bob Cleary behind the cage and backhanded it around the left post for the first goal at 3:50. Seconds later defenseman John Copeland scored on a powerful blue line shot that hit the inside of the right post...