Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost the moment the state chief justices, debated their resolution last week; the U.S. Senate finally beat down a series of bills designed to cut the" high court's prerogatives, especially in the field of security cases. But the cliffhanging margin of the votes was highly significant; i.e., on the key vote, the Supreme Court won by an eyelash 41-40 count...
...Africa black nationalism is here to stay, said the Rev. Dunstan K. Nsubuga of Uganda, and since the Christians cannot beat it, they had better join it. "Nationalism will spread all over Africa," he said. "In Kenya the Mau Mau movement is still strong. The church should not stay away from the nationalists but try to civilize them-keep them with the West." Mindful of such advice, the convention decided that African Protestants will work out a unified text for Sunday school books, to be printed in 74 African languages. Asians will "stop copying Sunday school textbooks from the West...
...Learn screwie from Ruben Gomez [of the Giants] in winter league in Puerto Rico. Use it all time now." Back with Milwaukee less than a month. 21-year-old Juan Pizarro parlayed his fast one and the "screwie" into three victories, an" ERA of 2.09. Last week he beat Cincinnati...
Swinging easily from suave, Como-style sophistication to the animal beat of rock 'n' roll, Domenico still managed to save some memory of the guitars and ritual-dance rhythms of his gypsy ancestors. The freshness of his singing, the unlettered freedom of his song itself are probably due in part to the fact that he has yet to find time to learn to read or write music. His father taught him simple tunes when he was still a barefoot boy barely as big as his guitar. He composed his first song at 14, has been playing ever since...
Jekyll & Hyde. Although Diane's firm, Lawson & Lawson, is the only one of its kind, other agents, mostly women, work the same beat for specific shows. And they stick to much the same criteria. "The ideal daytime quiz couple," says one of Diane's competitors, "comes from Indiana. The boy is 26, the girl 24; they are white and Protestant and they have two kids. Of course, on the intellectual evening shows, like Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question, they can't be so choosy -they have to have some brains...