Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulations to TIME'S correspondent in Paris on his article, "France: the Younger Generation"; he has hit all his nails squarely on the head, and seldom have I read an article so deeply comprehensive-and sympathetic-of all the ills that plague France at the present time as reflected by French youth and interpreted through American eyes. Even after years of close and happy association with my French friends, I still never fail to be appalled by the very typically Gallic shrug of the shoulders accompanied by the timeworn and threadbare excuses which reach back...
...trip was not without some unpleasantness. In Omaha an angry crowd of Baltic refugees from Soviet tyranny picketed Molotov's train, and the Russian delegation stayed discreetly aboard. But in Cheyenne, Wyo. the Soviet diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank...
...healed eventually, leaving only scars or patches of discoloration. More long-lasting were the effects on the islanders' blood. The lymphocytes (one type of white blood cell) were reduced by more than 50%, and most of the effects lasted for six months at least. The children were hardest hit, but devoted care kept all of them alive...
URANIUM FEVER has hit the huge Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., soon to build a $168 million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
...Barretts of Wimpole Street, presented on the new CBS dramatic series Front Row Center, was accented with the pleasant roll of Elizabeth Barrett poetry ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") The best thing about the 1931Broadway hit, in fact, was the writing: unlike that of most TV plays, it was at least distinguishable from the commercials between the acts. Beyond the writing, however, The Barretts indicated again, as Front Row Center did a fortnight ago with Dinner at Eight, that it is next to impossible to squeeze a well-known stage play into less than...