Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany at her own game. Like Dr. Wohlthat, he too got his wife from Philadelphia...
...formed. "Is the Government still yearning after appeasement?" angrily asked Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood. "Is it prepared to try to buy off Hitler by sacrificing Danzig and perhaps Poland itself? Is it toying with the idea that it can, by sweet reasonableness and financial aid, persuade Germany to beat her swords into plowshares...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...then one of the debutantes, beautifully dressed in fringed and beaded buckskin and wearing beaded moccasins, would steal away and snatch a few minutes' sleep, returning when the beat of the tom-toms quickened. On the third day the Apaches and their guests amused themselves with baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. On the third night they danced again...
...American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held their breath, Richard Burton, a Cheshire pro, ambled up to his ball on the 18th green, sank a long putt for a birdie 3 and a 71 that beat Bulla by two strokes...