Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four other varsity players--Bob Bowditch, captain Bob Repetto, George Harrington, and Mike Donohue--all hit in double figures, in what was essentially a team victory. Paul Rubincam, a substitute forward, led the Quakers with 13 points. Penn's leading scorer, Al Schwait, was out with a broken...
...sold 100,000 copies in the South alone. Folsom Prison Blues, Ballad of a Teen-Age Queen-everything he turned out became a hit. And everything he composed came easily. "I write songs in the back of the car," Johnny explains, "or in hotel rooms, in planes." But "write" is the wrong word. He cannot read a note. Johnny simply picks out the tunes that arrange themselves in his head, plays them over and over till the boys know them well and can record them on tape...
...Buildings. "I know many campuses where a gunshot in the middle of the afternoon would not only hit no one; there would scarcely be anyone about to hear it. One president discovered that some 80% of all the classes in the university were held in the forenoon. He said it was hardly fair to ask the legislature for more buildings, unless the university made better use of the ones it had. After a year of urging, he succeeded in getting the proportion of morning classes reduced from...
...Auto output increased to 115,770 cars, up 1,488 from the week before, and 14% ahead of last year. Chrysler, which was hard hit by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. strike, expects to step up production with glass from other sources. If the strike is settled this week, as expected, Chrysler plans to go back into full production almost immediately...
Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...