Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what other name could good Democrats plump for? They did not forget the ancient political axiom: you can't beat somebody with nobody. Before they ditched Truman, they had to get a new band wagon rolling. And that was a risky business. Chicago's canny little Jake Arvey was the first front-ranker willing to take the risk. "Come convention time," announced Boss Arvey, "I will vote for ... a man who can be elected. I hope General Eisenhower becomes available...
...long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first, as if to say: "If you think you can beat him, you try it." Kramer beat Riggs, 6-3, 6-4. The score in matches, at week's end: Kramer 39, Riggs...
...Communist terror machine keeps rolling over Europe and Asia, erasing faith in freedom, the Reds will be strong enough to fight a war with the U.S.; they may be strong enough to win it. If the Communists should get control of Europe and China and hold them, they might beat the U.S., Bomb or no Bomb...
...Communist Flight. U.S. Intelligence had discovered that Russia intended to come out for the return of Trieste to Italy; the State Department beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
Furtwängler is a conductor who swoops and sweeps; Karajan's conducting is as precise as his beat. But he is just as much of a showman. He conducts everything from memory and with his eyes shut. When he finishes a piece, he holds a moment of silence before allowing any applause. Then, as if waking from a trance, he droops off stage...