Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
...Manhattan luncheon why he had changed the music in the movie version of the Broadway musicomedy Guys and Dolls, Producer Sam Goldwyn explained: "I put in three new songs to make the show better, and, to prove my point, two of the songs are already No. 1 on the Hit Parade...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship, with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...walk," they told doctors, who promptly hustled him off to bed. Sometime later, the prisoner, who indeed was "set" to walk, eluded his guard and lept from a hospital window. Fleet-footed policemen pursued him and within a block's distance managed to score again--this time a direct hit in the other leg. Stuart Cope, Adams House junior, made the admittance report for the second time, and according to one account, police insisted the itinerant patient be chained to the bed. The guard was doubled...
...crashed into the borrowed Pontiac driven by Paul L. Kelley of Belmont, which had stopped short. It also hit a parked Pontiac occupied by Mrs. Marguerite LaRaia, 58, and her daughter, Marguerite II, 26, who both escaped serious injury. Two other parked cars, a Pontiac and a Ford, also were entangled as the bus careened straight for the University Luncheonette...