Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeralize Uncle Row. Outside, the men stood in farm clothes or funeral-black town clothes. Inside, the preacher's voice was solemn, thin and reedy. The congregation murmured, its responses gathering resonance and urgency. Intoned the preacher: "We got a race to run for God, running to beat the devil who is trying to defeat us. Have faith in God, run on." The congregation chanted: "Run on. That's right. Amen." Said the preacher: "There's temptations to upset you on the way. The devil he tries to make you fall. Keep running. And if you fall...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...
After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
Jack Barnaby's squash team came home Saturday with their third consecutive victory behind them. But they had to struggle to beat Dartmouth...
Chip Gannon put it this way: "If we beat Navy and then take Dartmouth next Wednesday, we'll be one of the toughest teams to beat in New England. Last year, we lost a lot of tough overtime games at the beginning and this broke the squad's morale...