Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are two sides of the court you can hit to," said Tony later. "You hit to one or the other." This, he insisted, was his only strategy. It worked so well that he won 6-3, 7-5, 6-1. Not since the U.S.'s redheaded Don Budge turned the trick in 1938 had any man run out the Wimbledon championship without losing a set. Now, if he can win back his U.S. title, Tony is a cinch for a crack at the pros...
...about 4,000, of which half are now in U.S. collections. Every one has to do with the good things of life, particularly the loveliness of women, children and flowers. They are the work of a simple man with extraordinary command of his craft, who aimed to please and hit the bull's eye. All this does not make him a "master," for the true masters of art have been those who inspired mankind. Renoir's mission was more that of a chef who served up delicious refreshments for the eyes. Only the harshest of puritans could carp...
...million bbls.-4,000,000 bbls. less than the alltime peak in 1947. In terms of per capita consumption, the dip is even sharper; beer sales last year were down almost 15% from the wartime high of 18.7 gals, per person. And beer is not the only beverage industry hit: hard liquor sales have slumped nearly 30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gals, per capita. And sales of soft drinks are also down...
...imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim . . . Everything is left neatly up in the air, letting the heavy steel wrecking ball swing freely, hit as it may and where...
...heedlessly off having a soft-shoe competition with Cagney, and the remorseful widower settles down in Westchester to be a daddy to his justifiably indignant brood. But, at tedious length, he is persuaded by his agent to drag all seven of the urchins into vaudeville. They are a smash hit, and one of the boys improves his backstage hours by becoming an expert crapshooter, another a skilled Peeping Tom. And now Writer-Director Melville Shavelson adds a predictable turn of the dramatic screw: Hope's bitter sister-in-law protests to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...