Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American educators can concern themselves not only with the problem of whether Russia will build the better mousetrap, but, if the Russians do, will our world beat a path to their door...
...token, Congressman Engle, also based in Washington, led his Republican opponent handsomely, though he was far less of a statewide personality. Had Knowland stirred up a hornets' nest of organized-labor opposition with his unqualified stand for a state right-to-work law? Labor certainly was out to beat him. But Republican Goodie Knight, longtime friend of organized labor, trailed badly...
...Assembly, in a characteristic bit of legislative haggling, attempted to tie the general's hands by proposing that if he wanted to change the French constitution, he would have to have Assembly approval before his plan could be submitted to popular referendum. The manner in which De Gaulle beat off this threat-he rushed over to the Assembly and threatened to resign on the spot-was out of his old bag of tricks. He got his powers at 12:30 a.m., and by a 350 to 163 vote. Since this was a three-fifths majority, he was free...
Class Day speakers examined the beat generation, the universe, and Puritanism in yesterday morning's exercises in the Sever Quadrangle...
Adam Clymer, class orator, termed the Class of 1958 the "overclassified generation," and denounced the current attempts at pigeon-holing today's young people as the beat generation, the silent generation, or the unsilent generation...