Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's fine with Dolan, who tells a group of prospective N.C.P.A.C. contributors: "Steve Symms will never have short-term beneficiary of much of the movement's activities. True, Viguerie is taking on more Democratic House candidates as clients. But most of the New Right hit lists feature only Democrats...
Dolan's approach is to start early and hit hard on the incumbent's record. An N.C.P.A.C. affiliate in Idaho began TV and radio commercials in June. Initially Church was accused of having "almost always opposed a strong national defense." The TV spot was taped in front of an empty ICBM silo, implying that Church's attitude say anything negative about Frank Church. We'll talk about all the negative stuff." And in Idaho, where air time is cheap, N.C.P.A.C. will talk about its view of Church's record over and over. One radio spot...
...balls were the first debris to hit U.S. waters from the runaway Mexican oil well that has dumped 265,000 tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the biggest oil spills in history-and potentially a major environmental disaster...
Mexican beaches were the first to be hit. They were spotted last week with giant puddles of crude oil and thick clusters of tar balls. The Mexican government mounted an emergency airlift to carry newly hatched Atlantic ridley turtles, an endangered species of giant sea turtle, from the polluted beaches...
...very nice chemistry student--Ellen--living with an obnoxious preppie who kept getting phone calls--me. One day these two have a fight over the chemistry girl's propensity for telling science jokes. The preppie flounces out and returns several hours later, asking for messages. "Your friend Chris was hit by a bus and killed," Ellen replied. The last line of the story read, "As the sound of retching filtered from the bathroom, she (Ellen) smiled over her little joke...