Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invective. He spent $18,000 a day for huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...appointed to the Senate eight years ago. Ball had angered Stassen four years ago by supporting Franklin Roosevelt for reelection, has since differed with him on many issues, notably on labor legislation and aid to Europe. But Joe Ball needed all the help he could get to beat able Hubert Humphrey, Democratic mayor of Minneapolis...
...Jews beat the Arabs...
...concentration camps, ghettoes, banks, courtrooms, theaters and factories of Europe the Chosen People had assembled and had won their first great military victory since Judas Maccabeus* beat the Syrian Nicanor at Adasa 2,109 years...
Holiday Spirit. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rausch won a divorce complaining that her husband, who used to beat her only on Christmas, had taken to beating her on other holidays...