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Word: besting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate was about 140,000, and so far this year it is running about the same. On the allied side, while the South Vietnamese forces are rising in numbers, equipment and training levels, desertions continue to plague ARVN; paradoxically, some of the highest desertion rates turn up in the best South Vietnamese divisions-perhaps because they are doing the most fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: THE NEW, UNDERGROUND OPTIMISM | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...sculptures included in the exhibition are overshadowed by hundreds of huge, bright paintings. Distracted by a vista of green paint across the room, you find yourself walking past even the best pieces of David Smith...

Author: By Cyntiha Saltzman, | Title: At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

When the Crimson basketball team opens its home season tonight against Boston University at 8 p. m. in the IAB. it will have to contend with one of the best teams in the Boston area. And one of the best players in the area, Jimmy Hayes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Must Stop Terriers' Hayes to Win | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...wife, Judith W. Frondel, research associate in Geology, reported that her husband had made the best of the situation, poring over moon rocks and chatting with the astronauts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frondel, Astronauts End Moon Quarantine | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...Screen Actors' Guild, 125 were specially-recruited students from Harvard-Radcliffe and Brandeis, and the rest were curiosity-seekers who would each get a dollar for dropping in and signing a release in case they actually appeared on film. As it turned out, these dollar people probably got the best deal. The professionals and students were committed for three days of misery. Those benches were hard, and it was much too cold to take off any of the clothes you were fortunate enough to have brought, which meant that shifting your ass involved a good deal of clumsy commotion...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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