Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violent protests from the district school board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island to teach them a few things...
Many fans of TV's third-degree interview shows (The Mike Wallace Interview, Night Beat] nurture the hope that they may one day see the victim turn on the inquisitor and cut him down to size. Last week it happened. In Manhattan, WABD's Night Beat filled its "hot seat" with Journalist Randolph Churchill, only son of Sir Winston. He listened politely to his introduction as a man who has been labeled "outspoken, ill-tempered and fearless." But when TV Torquemada John Wingate brought up the "unfortunate incident involving the arrest of your sister Sarah in California" (TIME...
...Miami, after airing 114 editorials on a newscast since last September, WTVJ happily watched the show's rating more than double. The editorials covered such subjects as obscene literature, pay TV, security at Cape Canaveral. WTVJ and many of its fellow editorializers try to follow these rules: beat the press to the draw, stick to local issues, curb negative blasting in favor of constructive suggestions...
...length lead, then blazing into the stretch-and a narrow victory-as though his tail were on fire. Could he do it again? This was the $130,500 Santa Anita Derby, and Silky was up against nine swift three-year-olds, including Old Pueblo, the last one to beat him. If he lost this time, people might suspect he was only a horse after...
...professional basketball season still had a few games to go last week when the Detroit Pistons' George ("The Bird") Yardley broke one of the brightest records in the game. Helping the Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 132-116. the Bird tossed in 49 points, pushed his year's total to a record 1,953. Watching him while he did it was the old titleholder: George Mikan, 33, the great Minneapolis center who held the seven-year-old mark of 1,932. By week's end Yardley had raised his record...