Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know important people . . . Nor did I ever realize that it was evil to be generous. Perhaps I do give gifts to too many people, but if I do, it is only an expression of my nature." Another expression of Goldfine's nature came later when he tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch by admitting to reporters that his gifts, including hotel expenses of more than $2,000, a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug to Sherman Adams, had been listed as tax deductible by Goldfine companies-i.e., legally valid if some "ordinary...
...coffee-house was full of wholesome types sipping ginger ale and looking at each other in off-beat anxiety. Portia passed on, swinging her book bag. Her soul trembled; but, of course, imperceptibly...
...sleek Mercedes cars too fast, even earned a rebuke from one of their own papers, Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "We are scared of you ladies and gentlemen-even more in the case of victory than the case of defeat." To the paper's relief, Sweden beat the Germans...
...winning design came from the drawing board of 55-year-old David Boyd, a Scotsman whose principal earlier success was the six-meter Circe, which in 1938 beat all comers in the international matches. Sceptre's African mahogany planking, her steel and oak frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall...
...Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin...