Word: beating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hook & Shatter. In Ku-ring-gai, Australia, the municipal council asked for a new fire engine after learning that the old one was so beat up it sometimes had to go to fires backwards...
...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...graduate of the University of the Sacred Heart (for women) of Tokyo and was the first non-Catholic to become president of the students' committee. She met Prince Akihito at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shodas have a summer villa, and beat him at tennis, 6-1. Said Akihito later: "She overwhelmed me." This spring Michiko joined the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club and in May won the club's Crown Prince Cup in a tournament, while Prince Akihito looked on and applauded. She and the prince have been together since, but never alone...
...against the free-enterprise policies of Chile's conservative President Jorge Ales-sandri, against foreign (and specifically U.S.) investments. They pledged themselves to fight for the "national liberation" of Chile by adding to the popular front they have already formed with the Socialists. President Alessandri, who barely, beat Socialist Candidate Salvador Allende in September's election, will plainly have to deal with a threat that is growing faster than he could have guessed...
...Dartmouth and Brown will be greatly improved this winter," Weiland predicts. "And Yale, with their fancy new rink, will be hard to beat." All in all, the Ivy race will be tight, probably the tightest it has ever been--and the Crimson may be shut out of the leadership...