Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward was a salute to Minnesota Democrats and to millions of women.. It was expected to sit well with the Danes; the new Ambassador had manners, dignity, quiet but expensive clothes and, best of all, a Scandinavian name. It got India Edwards, chief of Democratic women's activities, out of Harry Truman's hair, at least temporarily. And it made Mrs. Anderson happy...
Standing stolidly, his feet apart, his chin jutting out at the old, defiant angle, he cried: "If the government of Britain is entrusted to us at this crisis in her fate, we will do best for all, without fear or favor, without class or party bias . . . but with the clear and faithful simplicity that we showed in the days of Dunkirk . . ." An thony Eden, Churchill's deputy, also echoed wartime urgency: "We can promise only hard and challenging times...
...feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey's capital, Ankara, as ya-vashington...
...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
...Early Start. To get around this financial track block, most Canadians agreed that hearty, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...