Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was misty. The bright moons of floodlights beat down on the speaker. For ten minutes he stood there, waving his arms, gesturing helplessly to quiet the crowd. He looked a little awed. From the stands the acclamatory roar of 48,000 people swept over...
...most of his resemblance to Huey. When speaking he yanked off his coat, loosened his tie, windmilled wildly with his arms. Though his experience had been limited to campus politics at Louisiana State University, he proved himself a natural at swampwoods oratory. He cockily announced that he would beat his opponent, 46-year-old Judge. Robert F. Kennon, by 125,000 votes...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...shirtsleeves, sun-back dresses and shorts, 24,636 Chicago racing fans last week crowded into Washington Park, for the 38th running of a famous Midwest race, the American Derby. Only five horses were entered in the race: Calumet Farm's Citation just looked too good to beat...
Added Eddie Arcaro: "Citation sort of waited for him and when he saw Papa he began to eat himself up. You're always a little worried, but I was never worried that I didn't have enough horse under me. He can beat any horse in any part of a race...