Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter would have grinned at the groan of the opponent after he had been hit by an exceptionally vicious tackle, or the shout from the other side, "All right, hit 'em while they're down...
...After the primary, he launched a series of headline attacks on Hynes. Closing one vituperative speech, Powers announced that a member of the State Crime Commission told him, "the Hynes administration is the most corrupt in Boston's history." Powers' further accusations of "silence" and "cover-up" made Hynes hit back. With two weeks to go now, both candidates are swinging from the heels...
...model took 24 seconds to go from 10 to 60 m.p.h., the average 1955 model does it easily in less than 15 seconds: a few can do it in ten. For the crackpot motorist this is an invitation to disaster. But for thousands of others the ability to hit cruising speeds fast means fewer traffic jams, less danger pulling onto high-speed turnpikes...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: M-G-M announced that its stable of topflight screen writers had hit an eight-year high, with 51 writers at work on 41 major movies...
...same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while the star was driving drunk-a rap that was taken for him by a studio flunkey). Star signs...