Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though history's heart had skipped a beat. For a brief, illusory moment, other struggles between Communism and the West seemed suspended-as if the contestants paused to watch the outcome of the stirring battle being fought in Italy. At dawn this Sunday, Italians will go to the polls to choose, in a democratic election, between Communism and the West...
Well-armed rebels, fighting to give rightist Otilio Ulate the presidency to which he was elected last February, sat high in their southern mountains and beat off clumsy government attacks. In San José, leftist President Teodoro Picado and ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia, the men who had provoked the war by getting Ulate's election annulled as fraudulent, had found they could not control Comrade Mora; they had wooed him too long and too earnestly. Their police and troops, weakened by losses in the field, were nothing compared to his 1,500 well-disciplined shock troops...
...thou shalt mark each one well; and if some goat doth prance and stomp and beat upon the ground with his hoof, heed...
...beat out Jack Denton and Bob Mattsen in practice competition yesterday to assure themselves of the fifth and sixth place slots...
...Dick Harlow was in Cambridge most of the past month gathering up his personal belongings for transfer to Maryland, he kept out of sight as much as possible and a lot of us never got a chance to see him. It was therefore with considerable interest that this department beat its way down to the Copley Plaza two night ago to participate in what may be the retired coach's last public appearance, either in Boston or anywhere else...