Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend. Indeed, it was a crowd worthy of this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered against her father's shoulder. He muttered to someone near him: "Why shouldn't she be here? These are historic...
...first man fell, pitching forward on his face. In the minutes that followed, the crowd rolled back & forth repeatedly through the columns of the Tor, as its courage alternately flared and faltered. As a whole it was not a bold crowd: one bunch that halted a Soviet car beat a hasty retreat when the officer in it jumped out, stamped his foot and waved his fists...
...cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt...
...future looked black to Leahy. As his 72-man squad stepped briskly through its pre-season paces at South Bend last week, Leahy looked ahead to opening day and turned away with a groan. Said he: "September 25 is going to be a sad afternoon. I think Purdue will beat...
...returned to South Bend from their summer vacations looking bronzed and rugged. They had kept in shape as farmhands, icemen, truck drivers and lifeguards. Now they were back on a Leahy diet of football, sleep and twice-a-week steaks. Coming out of each scrimmage huddle the players yelled: "Beat the Boilermakers...