Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beat. In Waterloo, Ont., a housewife was politely turned down when she asked for a policeman to baby-sit at her home while she went to the police station to pay a parking fine...
...reporters anywhere cover more ground than TIME'S Australian correspondent, Fred B. Hubbard, 39, who newspapered in Chicago before moving to Brisbane twelve years ago. Hubbard's beat embraces 2,948,366 sq. mi., some of them so untamed that when a story takes him to Australia's Northern Territory, he sets foot on barren plains where aborigines still hunt wallabies. He has reported on the diet of platypuses, the music of the bushmen, and kuru, the strange back-country ailment in which the afflicted literally laugh themselves to death. Last week, just returned from an assignment...
...single House seat, Hawaii's fast-rising Democrat Dan Inouye, 34, who lost his right arm in action with the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, resoundingly beat Mrs. Patsy Takemoto Mink, 31. He will run against Republican Charles H. Silva, 55, Hawaii's Territorial Director of Institutions...
Biggest individual vote went to Hawaii's Territorial Delegate to the U.S. Congress, John A. Burns, 50, who beat his primary opponent 10-1 to win the Democratic nomination for Governor, outpolled Territorial Governor William F. Quinn, 39, unopposed for the Republican nomination, by a resounding...
...countered rebel claims of a successful landing with a communiqué full of gore. The "liberators" who survived an air and naval bombardment, it said, "waded ashore apparently hoping still to march on Ciudad Trujillo with the aid of peasants. It did not work that way. Machete-swinging farmers beat government troops to the beach. The invasion ended in a murderous flailing of razor-sharp machetes on the reddened sands. Army patrols found only dismembered bodies...