Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after twelve days, when the 150 m.p.h. winds of Typhoon Hope whipped the South China Sea into a cauldron of death. Some 443 Vietnamese aboard three junks barely made it to Hong Kong after being pushed back to sea from Macao by Portuguese officials the day before the storm hit...
...kept many shoppers out of the stores. Yet there is no reason to look for an especially deep recession in the year ahead." Less optimistic is Robert Nathan, another member of the TIME board. He foresees a slump that could last six quarters and a jobless rate that could hit close...
...most exciting strike was made in 1975 when a drilling crew hit oil and gas deep in northern Utah's Pineview Field in what is known as the "Overthrust Belt." A giant geologic knot that twists from southern Colorado to the Canadian border, the belt was not considered worth serious exploration at previous prices because of the tough and expensive drilling conditions. Pools of oil and gas are randomly located and perched on top of one another, and such formations make traditional exploration and analysis difficult, if not impossible. Says A.B. ("Pete") Slaybaugh, chief of Continental...
...sepia-tinted photograph in a color-television age, a throwback to the time when ballplayers wore baggy wool flannel uniforms and played cards on lonesome train rides through the night. His square shape and scowling countenance served him poorly off the field. He could deliver the winning hit but not the winsome quote, and thus suffered in the game of personality hype, the game that, sadly, often seems to count most...
Because of the cracks, some apartments were as cold as 45 degrees when the brisk wind hit the wall. When the wind did not, occupants "boiled" because of the overheating provided to compensate for the wall's heat-leak...