Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for refusing to get excited. Few voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day. Two out of three, according to a Gallup poll last week, thought New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey could not possibly be beaten. Moreover, the electioneering had not developed into the kind of nerve-jangling jihad to which the country had grown accustomed since...
...expected Sweden to plump immediately for full cooperation. Norwegians and Danes were looking forward to a time when, as one observer put it, Sweden's power could be folded into a West European defense system "carefully, like the beaten white of an egg into a cake mixture...
...grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...
Storm in Black & White. Gus Beale's test comes when a Negro pilot, member of a squadron that Washington has created merely to pacify pro-Negro opinion, is beaten up by a white colonel. The affair has nothing to do with racial prejudice, but before the next day is out it has ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders...
...Harvardians have beaten the practice room problem through the generosity of the Cambridge Fire Department. Hermann and several of his instrumentalists are honorary members of the department and play with the department band at Sunday morning communion breakfasts and at local city functions...