Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said Ike to the sinewy little (5 ft. 7 in.) monarch at a White House luncheon: "Since the American people honor and admire courage, they have for you a real feeling...
...political issues, he was nonetheless proud of his calling: "I have been a politician all my life. There is no nobler profession-except perhaps that of the church." Bussing and blarneying almost every woman in sight ("My, you're a beautiful thing"), Sean O'Kelly was a hit wherever he went...
...which he twirls like a pistol. Fortunately, the man is so shad-bellied tall that he can spin the barrel under his arm without scraping his armpit. Raised in Brooklyn, Chuck spent six years in minor-league ball, wound up with the Los Angeles Angels in 1952 (batted .321, hit 23 homers). When he walked in to try out for Rifleman, the director suddenly pitched a rifle at him. Chuck fielded it neatly...
...Unprepared Pentagon.Despite this tipoff, the Pentagon was totally unprepared when the Times hit the streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that...
...while, nothing happened; a Knights of Columbus contingent even grinned when a few students quavered out God Save the Queen as they passed. Then, toward the parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and forth. Almost everyone managed to be wrongheaded about what followed. The national vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians nonsensically protested that the disturbance was an attack on Roman Catholicism; Yale students howled that it was hobnailed police brutality; and Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold charged it to "childishness...