Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telescope; bells rang, red and green lights flashed, and everybody roared commands through megaphones. When it was over and three English cruisers were sunk, I was asked how I liked it. I told them, frankly, that I thought they were crazy. Whereupon the whole family fell upon me and beat me up. I had the satisfaction of wrecking most of the U-boat in the process...
...away. One turned Nazi. I stuck it out for about four months. One day, on the way home, I was stopped by a friend who gave me a toothbrush and a ticket to Vienna, telling me that the Gestapo was in my apartment and just to beat it. The next day I was in Vienna...
...Beat You." Says Branch Rickey: "Leo can't be found mollycoddling a situation. He has marvelous aptitude-whether shooting pool, playing golf or squash or gin rummy-but no classical education. His marks in deportment may not have been too good. He came out of a pretty tough neighborhood in Springfield, Mass. with great energy which boiled down to three words: 'I'll beat you, I'll beat...
Dropping matches only to Yale, Coast Guard, Brown, and MIT, the riflemen beat Bowdoin, Rhode Island State, Massachusetts State, New Hampshire, Chicago, Worcester Polytechnic, Vermont, and Norwich...
...Saturday, trying to find the right man for the right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...