Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
...Milwaukee was shouting the same Scripture last week. For Henry Louis Aaron, a lithe young Negro outfielder, stretched out his hand, smote an eleventh-inning pitch into the center-field bleachers, beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2, and cured a civic inferiority complex. After predicting it brashly for five summers, Milwaukee citizens finally saw their boast come true. The Braves had won a National League pennant...
...Scoreboards showed some surprising arithmetic as football settled down for the fall season. Notre Dame began to run up revenge for last year's embarrassing record (two victories, eight losses) by beating powerful Purdue, 12-0. Columbia, long practiced in the art of losing gracefully, upset Ivy League predictions by whipping Brown, 23-20. Michigan State ran out of substitutes while eating up Indiana, 54-0. Texas Christian, riding on the broad shoulders of Halfback Jimmy Shofner, upset Ohio State, 18-14. While Georgia Tech settled for a scoreless tie with S.M.U., Auburn beat Tennessee, 7-0, and moved...
...brown horse Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same afternoon, George Widener's Jester, two-year-old son of Tom Fool, won the $114,705 Futurity, a victory earmarking him the Horse...
About four centuries after David's men beat Saul's at the pool of Gibeon ("And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, so they fell down together"), Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth...