Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teaming with the 6 ft. Donohue at guard will be Bob Bowditch, a forward last winter. Wilson calls Bowditch "the best shooter on the squad," and the 6 ft., 1 in. marksman possesses a deadly jump shot which helped him hit for an average of 10 points per contest as a sophomore last year...
...steel industry's ingot output last week hit a surprising total of 78.9% of capacity, or 2,233,000 tons. This was nearly 20% better than anticipated and close to the 2,252,000-ton output in the last pre-strike week. As the glowing ingots moved from soaking pit to rolling mill and out to customers, the glow spread through the U.S. economy...
First to be warmed was the railroad industry. Freight-car loadings jumped 14% for the week to 638,408 cars, the largest traffic since the 697,633 cars loaded in the last week of June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors...
...been more than a year since that modern American morality play, The Ugly American, hit the scene with its less than surprising revelations about State Department boobery abroad. Whatever its literary drawbacks--and they were great--the book did arouse public interest in an important field...
...trained in the language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...