Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House names who were attempting a comeback was Long Island Democrat Allard Lowenstein, 47. He led the "Dump Johnson" movement in protest against the Viet Nam War in 1968 but lost his seat in 1970?and has been losing ever since. He was defeated by the same man who beat him in 1974: Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat...
...pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.* "We're hypercautious," admitted Walter Cronkite. "We're always first," said a happy NBC News President Richard Wald as he munched tortilla chips at his Rockefeller Center election command post. To which William Sheehan, Wald's counterpart at ABC, replied: "I'd be satisfied to call...
There's just no way to beat the devil, judging from the number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides...
...which has very little and a great deal to do with tomorrow's Harvard-Yale game (or Yale-Harvard, depending on which side of the Stadium you sit.) That my grandfather, and his teammates, beat Harvard 6-0 seventy years ago doesn't mean much to me; that I have a link, in some way with him (a man I never met) when I sit down on that concrete touches me inexplicably. I make no claims of being unique. Perhaps that is the strength of The Game, thousands of others who find they have links to the past, to relatives...
...Quality-wise we can't be beat--what do we do for an encore?" says Hunt. "But as far as quantity is concerned, I'd like to see double or triple the participation we have now," he adds...