Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president of the Buddy Holly Fan Club (well acted by Moosie Drier, 13) tells Freed of his sorrow over Holly's death. Such isolated moments do not bring American Hot Wax to a crescendo, but no one can accuse Mutrux of ever losing the film's rocking beat...
Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...
Many students said they tried to "beat the system" by chosing houses they believed would not be very popular. As a result, various river houses had openings in the random pool...
...STORY is the thinking man's answer to the tawdry romance. Well-written and skillfully-plotted mysteries, at their best, provide both escapism and a challenge to those little gray cells Hercule Poirot used so well. A devoted mystery reader can--and does--spend hours in an effort to beat the author at his own game--chasing subtle clues, eliminating suspects, trying to fit the events into one of the classic formulas conceived by the venerable Dame Agatha Christie...
...uses these rallies to claim as yet unaccomplished feats, and misquotes figures to beat the band. He will tell you that during his administration Mississippi's per capita income has risen to third in the nation--when only the rate of increase has done so. (This trend had been set before Finch was elected, and in a state as poor as Mississippi, a large increase is very easy to achieve, but almost meaningless. In fact, the dollar gap between Mississippi and the nation has increased...