Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council control and dividing up the oil income among the individual families. That kind of pressure is already violent among the neighboring Southern Utes: a few weeks ago Indian thugs jumped Southern Ute Council Chairman John Baker, No. 1 opponent of the clamorous share-the-wealth faction, and beat him unconscious...
...Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States." It was. Muscular Olympian Tom Courtney ran himself into exhaustion in a spectacular 880-yd. race, beat his Melbourne teammate Arnie Sowell by 1½ seconds, set a new world's record (1:46 8) and announced that he was now ready to take a crack at the four-minute mile...
...give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of New York." The words were the prophet Isaiah's-about Sodom and Gomorrah-but the voice was the Southern smoothness of Billy Graham coming over the 18 loudspeakers in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The voice beat upon more than 18,000 people -seekers and servers of the Lord as well as the merely curious-and it etched itself upon the sliding ribbons of the tape recorders set up by radiomen. The evangelist of the mid-century set out last week on his toughest "crusade"-to bring...
Heart Specialist Dock noted that coughing and contracting the abdominal muscles during bowel movements "impose burdens analogous to those caused by lifting heavy objects . . . Less severe but more sustained circulatory stress is imposed by sexual intercourse . . . Pulse rate is nearly doubled, [the heart's] output per beat is increased nearly 50%, and systolic pressure rises about 30% even in orgasms induced by masturbation, with less emotional or physical stress. This circulatory effect is comparable to that caused by running up two or three flights of stairs, while in intercourse the effect may be two or three times more severe...
...tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer. "I'm not strictly country boy, and I'm not strictly pop," says Ernie. "You know I couldn't top Roy Acuff's Grand Ole Opry stuff, and I couldn't beat Como. So I mix 'em, and the people like it fine...