Word: beate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...steel mills and barrooms of Aliquippa, Pa., the men who make steel heatedly debate one subject. They beat it to pieces during Coke breaks in the fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...
Novelist Wain's assets are a sharp eye for the social fads and furbelows of suburban England, a sharp ear for the mannered vulgarities of middle-class speech. What the book lacks is either the pulse beat of anger or the tart shivers of satirical laughter...
...year--it also holds the Charles River mark of 8:45 flat--the Elis have their normally strong crew. Undefeated before the EARC sprints where they finished third to the Crimson and Syracuse, Coach Jim Rathschmidt's men are playing themselves down but would like nothing better than to beat the Henley bound varsity...
...speech -a-day campaign with the same energy his father had shown as G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, he was forced out of T.R.'s footsteps decisively. Reason: his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, held the sidewalks of New York City solid to beat Ted's upstate lead by 108,500 votes...