Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knots at 8,000 feet," the commander, Lieut. Richard Fischer, said a few hours later, "when ordnance [i.e., his aviation ordnanceman] reported a Russian plane. 'I have an aircraft! It's firing on us!' I took immediate evasive action. A hail of machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage and port wing, and injured three or four men. We had no opportunity to return fire...
...live with a bad left knee that he injured in a football game at West Point in 1912. His other bothersome health problem now is recurring bursitis.* As long ago as 1938, he had his first trouble with bursitis in his left shoulder. During the campaign of 1954, it hit his right shoulder. Unusual exercise or strain that calls for shoulder action (an hour of handshaking can be excruciating) inflames the shoulder; some forms of exercise, e.g., golf and fishing, in which there is less strain on the right shoulder muscles, are not difficult. The President's physicians have...
...celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening gowns fled, leaving their high-heeled shoes behind. Men broke...
...loose from United Aircraft last year, has added another fighter to the U.S. arsenal of supersonic jets, its first as an independent company. The plane, now being tested for the Navy, is the XF8U-1, a snub-nosed, swept-wing single-engined fighter designed to operate off carrier decks, hit a top speed of around 900 m.p.h...
Where Will It End? With newer and more efficient machines, the industry expects the boom to go on and on. Replacement sales will be enormous. On tractors alone, replacements average 10% of the total each year, by 1960 will hit 450,000 units annually. Says Oliver's President A. King McCord: "We believe that 1960 could be the biggest year of this industry just on replacement alone." Beyond that, the world's food requirements are growing with the fast increase in population. Says Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy, chief of the farm division: "By 1975, our population...