Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined task force of the U.S. Navy last week declared open war on the rest of the nation's military establishment, end specifically on the new boss of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World...
Fine Harvard crews seem as dependable these days as final exams in June. This year Tom Bolles has manufactured--with the aid of some extraordinary oarsmen--two boats which have swept every regatta with little trouble. In the course of the season, the Crimson has beaten every major college in the East and has left no doubts as to its pre-eminence...
...young Negro was lynched in Irwington, Georgia during the night by a white mob which took him from a sheriff's house, part of which served as a jail. The 28-year-old-Negro, Calif Hill, Jr., was found badly beaten with bullet holes in the heart and neck, lying by a creak...
Fully an hour before Harry Truman tumbled out of bed at his usual 6 a.m., an earlier bird in the same nest had beaten him to it. In the stillness of Blair House, another President, Brazil's Eurico Caspar Dutra, also true to his old-soldier habit, had already shaved and breakfasted. Coming down stairs later, Harry Truman invited his overnight guest along on his regular morning stroll. Long before the high priests of protocol were up to bother them, the two Presidents ambled leisurely in the capital's cool, clear morning...
...Monday, the team journeys to Providence for a non-league encounter with Brown. Harvard's final game until after exams. The Crimson beat Brown, 8 to 3, in a league contest earlier in the year. Since then, the Bruins have beaten Columbia, Navy, and Princeton, and lost to Penn, Cornell, and Yale. They have proved more effective on their own Aldrich Field than on the road. Barry Turner will pitch for the visitors...