Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three members of the Yardling squad broke freshman records, as the team beat the Andover varsity, 58 to 28, in the preliminary meet...
Subbing for the injured Dave Skeels, Carl Kludt pinned Larry Zacharia, at 130, in 4:16. Other falls were racked up by Rick Sullivan, at 167, and by heavy-weight Ted Robbins. Sullivan beat Dartmouth's Jim Lawrence in 7:38, and Robbins pinned Bob Davidow...
Forty years ago, Ireland's countryfolk used to sing: "When next we challenge England, we'll beat her in the fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...
...national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy $17,449,360 in purses...
...perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader for an initial $170 million (23 planes) Navy contract...