Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Service and Western Union Telegraph Co. Straw allegedly sold paintings that he did not own -and some that did not even exist. He staved off creditors with partial payments and bouncing checks. The case, now being investigated by the FBI, is one of the most sensational scandals ever to hit the secretive world of big-time art collecting...
...week, with an entourage of 50 (choir, soloists, sound technicians, a bodyguard), he went to Columbus, and Harrisburg, Pa. This week it will be Albany. In cooperation with Washington-based New Right political groups, he has just organized his first purely secular enterprise, Moral Majority Inc., and plans to hit all 50 states within 18 months. He sees Moral Majority as a much needed antidote to progressive public interest organizations like Common Cause. Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett traveled with Falwell during the first week of his campaign. Barrett's report...
...Drummer Kenny Jones hit the downbeat. John Entwistle ran out a bass line as strong as a backbone. Roger Daltrey strutted and sang, and Pete Townshend, leaping, launched them all into Substitute. At that opening moment last week, The Who set new standards, redeemed old promises and put a few ghosts to rest. These concerts may become not only one of the seminal rock events of 1979 but a route dynamited into the new decade...
...Middle East, stirred a wave of panic buying that pushed the price of bullion up by a record $24 an oz. in just one day. Trading was so hectic that the normal 500-an-oz. spread between buying and selling prices widened at times to $5. Gold hit an all-time high of $380 in London before slipping back at week's end to $369-up nearly $40 in just 14 days and a staggering $164 in twelve months...
...more than he figured for his bullion. When buying or selling coins, for example, dealers commonly add a charge amounting to 5% or more of the market price. Thus someone who bought a Krugerrand when gold was at $380 last week would have to wait for the price to hit $420 before he could sell and get his money back...