Word: beating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sabre and epee, the varsity holds a slim but definite edge. A good showing in foil and top effort in all departments will be needed to beat the Engineers...
...remaining four victories were in four games. Number three man Tim Gallwey played erratically in beating Tom Kehler, 17-16, 15-9, 4-15, 12-15, 15-4. Fourth man Fred Vinton topped Jim Jennings, 6-15, 15-18, 15-11, 15-7. At seven, Charlie Poletti beat Bardyl Tirana, 18-15, 15-6, 14-15, 15-2, and in eighth position Wally Stimson rallied to down Bob Seabring...
...article on Fidel Castro fails to point out that he has been able to give Cuba its first honest government in its history ; you failed to foresee in previous stories how the ragged troops under the leadership of an "egotistic, impulsive, immature and disorganized" Castro could thoroughly beat the hell out of Batista...
...rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans. Bee readers expect thorough news coverage as a matter of course. The Sacramento Bee, biggest of the three, maintains a city-room staff of 70, and keeps a full-time squad of six newsmen on the state legislature beat. A string of 238 correspondents services all three papers...
...Hannibal, Mo. (he worked for board and clothes), his career as printer in St. Louis, silver miner in Nevada, correspondent in the Sandwich Islands, river boat pilot on the Mississippi. Clemens fondly speaks of one "charmingly leisurely boat, the slowest on the planet. Upstream she couldn't even beat an island; downstream she was never able to overtake the current...