Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offices of the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, whose difficulties with the Communists (TIME, July 4) had occupied the center of Shanghai's stage almost since the first days of the takeover. Inside, sleepless Editor Randall Gould and an assistant listened wearily while a delegation of workers beat out an ear-splitting cacophony with a band made up of pans, buckets and empty kerosene tins...
...when they discovered that the opposition had cornered all police permits for the feast. The police took the position that if the Communists and the anti-Communists both hold processions for the Madonna del Carmine, blood would probably flow in the streets. As gracefully as they could, the Communists beat a retreat, agreed to join E.N.A.L. and the Giornale d'ltalia as co-sponsors of a unified celebration...
...swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year-old Dutch housewife, Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel, tackled the 21-mile stretch from France's Cap Gris Nez. Protected against the cold water by 25 lbs. of heavy grease, Mrs. van Rijsel ran into high seas 1½ miles from Dover...
...Blues. One day in 1947, Hattori saw some Japanese couples trying to jitterbug to the slow, sickly sort of green-blues which most Jap jazz-composers were turning out. He decided "to break away from kurai ongaku [dark music]," wrote Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. It hit, and boogie began to beat all over Japan...
Murayama also gave Asahi such a liberal and antimilitarist tone that nationalist gangsters beat him and bombed his house and, in 1936, soldiers with bayonets invaded Asahi's modernistic seven-story Tokyo offices and assaulted some of his successors. In World War II, the militarists "purged" Asahi, but the interlopers were ousted after Japan's surrender...