Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football codes look as interesting and as fast as cricket appears to Americans. The game is known as Australian Rules Football ... In the city of Melbourne, an average of 130,000 people travel to league and association club matches every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball are the fundamental attributes. The game is continuous, and there...
...Clytie") Catlett, the Hisses' onetime Negro maid, to testify that the Hisses had given the machine to her sons, had tried to show that the machine was not in the Hiss household when the treasonous act was committed. But neither Clytie Catlett and her sons, uncertain witnesses at best, nor the Hisses were able definitely to remember just when the Catletts got the machine. Pat Catlett remembered that when he got it, he took it forthwith to a typewriter repair shop at K Street and Connecticut Avenue. Last week a Washington real-estate agent testified that the shop...
...tune of $100 a week. Although they denied it, Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron has frequently praised as the best police chief to be found anywhere, retired. As his successor Mayor Bowron picked a man whom he thought even Brenda couldn't faze: Major General William A. Worton, who served as chief of staff of the Marines' III Amphibious Corps at Okinawa...
...Oscar award to Hamlet as the best film of 1948 was notable because...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...