Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat Payne, handshaking, backslapping Ed Muskie, a Roman Catholic and father of three (a fourth is due in December), is the best campaigner on the Maine scene in many a year; even Republicans admit that he has been the most effective Governor in the last 50 years. He got the credit and Republicans the ill will last spring when he called a special legislative session, proposed to extend recession-ridden Maine's unemployment aid or accept federal help, was turned down by G.O.P. legislators. Just three days before election, President Eisenhower vetoed the Payne-sponsored bill to provide federal...
...bumped out of the U.S. Senate by Republican Tenderfoot Barry Goldwater in 1952, leaped from Arizona's governorship to the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator by 104,000 to 39,000 over weak opposition-a show of strength that for the first time rated him a chance to beat Goldwater in November...
...bids always seemed to be a few cents off. Finally, when a giveaway house was at stake, Mignone decided that the only way to beat the game was to break the rules. He waited for the correct bid to be announced over the air, then faked a couple of postcards and tried to bribe two 16-year-old mail sorters (with $3,000 each) to slip the doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take...
Says Helmsman Mann: "I think the boats are about even." If Sceptre becomes the first British boat to beat the U.S. since America first won the cup in 1851, he is prepared. As extra cargo, Sceptre's crew brought along a special box just big enough to hold the America...
That's been her diversion every four o'clock for three centuries of Cambridge afternoons. Her young men file in--Apathetic, Beat, Sad, Angry, Intense, or just plain tired--and she teaches them to be gentlemen, for gentlemen will save the world...