Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and light artillery. In equipment they have a better start than did the bootleg German army of the '20s, which was also founded on a cadre of the best officer material...
...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...
...Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...
...commission's chief criteria had been "durability, dignity and beauty." There was no denying that the monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns...
When he played master of ceremonies on a quiz show last season, Groucho Marx worked a radio wonder by winning the prized Peabody Award as the best comedian on the air. This week he worked another one. After Variety had reported that giveaways are giving way to "entertainment without the gimmicks," Groucho sold his radio giveaway, You Bet Your Life (Wed. 9 p.m. E.S.T., CBS), to a new sponsor (De Soto) for five years starting...