Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, 20 more Salvadorans died in clashes among the many extremist political factions that have made civil strife a way of life in El Salvador (pop. 4.8 million). On one side are the leftist terrorist groups that seek to provoke a Nicaragua-style insurrection. On the other are the hit teams obedient to the country's ultraconservative elite. Standing helpless in the middle, unable to control either the notoriously brutal 12,000-man security forces or intransigent foes on the left and right, is the civilian-military junta that ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero only last month...
Aided by oil revenues that are expected to hit $20 billion this year, the Iraqi government has decreed free medical services and free education and launched an impressive campaign to stamp out illiteracy, with fines and jail terms for those between 15 and 45 who refuse to learn to read and write. There are also notable failures. Agricultural production has lagged, despite huge irrigation and land-reclamation projects. Housewives frequently do without such basic foods as potatoes, onions or eggs. Baghdad is afflicted by urban sprawl, air pollution and strained water and electrical facilities...
Nearly as controversial as the sexual activity are the psychodrama sessions conducted at the ranch. A man broke a hand while beating on a rug-covered log to vent his anger. One woman received a black eye and a dislocated jaw after being hit in the face, and a month ago, another suffered head injuries in a fall...
...President's move to hit out at the oil company targets was especially ill-timed, since many of his energy measures seem at last to be moving through Congress. Said one Energy Department official: "I can't believe Carter's pulling this stuff. His rhetoric can't do any good, and it could do real harm." The House and Senate windfall profits tax bills will soon go to a conference committee; compromise legislation to form the Energy Mobilization Board is on the verge of being worked out; and the Senate now seems ready to approve...
...Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...