Word: beating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOMEONE said American poetry is divided into smoothies and shaggies. I'm a shaggy." So says a poet who has been a Christian Scientist, agnostic, anarchist and conscientious objector. Yet today he wears the white tunic and black scapular of a Roman Catholic Dominican lay brother. See RELIGION, Beat Friar...
Earle C. Clements, 62, a cold-eyed professional who wants to deliver Kentucky delegates to his good friend Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Losing campaign manager of the primary that Happy won 24 years ago, Clements later beat Chandler forces to become state political boss (1947-55) and U.S. Senator (1950-56). He lost his Senate seat in the 1956 general election to Republican Thruston B. Morton; Enemy Chandler cheerfully takes the credit for switching the critical Democratic votes. In his grim drive to take state party control back from Chandler and control the 1960 delegation, Clements has spent many...
...newspaper announcing that the Russians had organized a unit to send a man to hell. The next morning there would be two or three federal agencies around with budget figures, public relations staffs pounding on the walls of Congress saying, 'We can't let 'em beat...
...aluminum jet-propelled hydroplane that he will try out this fall. Lombardo professed to be undisturbed by Campbell's latest feat. "We figured when we planned our boat," he said, "that we would have to design it to go 300 m.p.h. I'm confident we'll beat Campbell's record...
...Better than average, although we didn't beat Yale" is the way Coach Adolph Samborski aptly described the past freshman baseball season...