Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expensive Chair. Sing Sing Prison, which has electrocuted only seven women in its history, went to considerable trouble and expense in preparing to execute Martha Beck, the "Lonely Hearts" murderess. To accommodate Mrs. Beck-who beat another woman's brains out after plotting the deed with a greasy-haired Romeo named Raymond Fernandez-Sing Sing reopened the woman's wing of the death house and hired four female helpers...
...last week's semifinals, Brough came up against frail, canny Doris Hart of Jacksonville, Fla., No. 3 in the U.S. rankings. In the damp footing, Brough was unable to play her usual forcing game and Hart beat her with sharpshooting placements, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. In the finals, Du Pont took Hart's measure, but only after coming from behind...
...Where U.S. Champion Pancho Gonzales beat Gardnar Mulloy in the finals of the Newport Invitation tournament...
...hoped that by fight night their man might be mean tempered enough to go after Gus with all guns smoking, but cautious, self-deprecating Ezzard Charles ran true to form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual earnest, crafty and intelligent fight. He beat game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face...
...Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes; He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases...