Word: beate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside, fighting for their union's claims that the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians ought to work on all NBC shows, even when they are taped abroad. One result: Vice President Nixon turned up for the award dinner three hours before it started in order to beat the pickets to Washington's Mayflower Hotel and technically avoid crossing the line. But Nixon would have done better to avoid the whole business. The show was so dull and pompous that the cast hardly had the right to laugh at itself when Comedienne Elaine May gave a mock...
...Lest anyone think that ABC might lack talent after it gives Voice of Firestone the boot, the network wasted no time in demonstrating its taste, beat the competition in signing a prize performer who will not be available until the Army releases him in the spring of 1960. For an estimated $1,000,000, Pfc. Elvis Presley will gyrate and whine through at least one "special" a year for at least three years...
...broken up in fist fights), the three board members decided to keep their plan to themselves, and another member moved to adjourn the meeting. "The time for solution is now!" cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them with chairs and anything else handy. With the auditorium a maelstrom of flying bodies, county police in 24 prowl cars moaned up to the school to quell the disturbance...
...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
Probably seeded too low at number seven, Bowditch, a sophomore, beat some of the best men in the tournament on the way to his victory. Particularly impressive were his wins over Tom Richardson of Amherst and Tom Freiberg of Yale; both men are experienced seniors and former finalists in this tournament. In the final, Bowditch beat unseeded Clyde Buck of Williams, who had earlier upset Weld and Raul Karman of M.I.T. Weld, Vinton and Wood all reached the round of sixteen before bowing...