Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-intellectualism, the main practitioners today are those people who believe that the best way to effect political or other changes in society is by the massing of bodies in the streets or public buildings...
...stick with the President. And then compassion for Haynsworth makes it very personal. So you have all the wrenching of loyalties and compassion pulling against your sense of truth, and you know that people have entrusted you with this kind of decision. So you just have to do the best you can with...
...young naval veteran's first congressional campaign. In 1952, when Jack was thinking of running for Governor of Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy persuaded him to try for Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat. "When you've beaten him," said Joe, "you've beaten the best. Why try for something less?" The Kennedy forces spent $500,000, dislodged the Senator by 70,000 votes...
...typical or the characteristic. He did on occasion-a great painting is irresistible at times, even to a millionaire of individualistic taste. "But his collection is completely his own," says Assistant Director Frederick Cummings of the Detroit Institute of Art. "He bought what he liked, and it was the best...
...resolved to get a medical education in the U.S. Turned down by seven schools, he took the advice of his father, a former mayor of Athens: "If you don't get what you want at first, try for something better." So young Cotzias went after the best, was accepted at Harvard Medical School-probably, Cotzias suggests, because no one there minded his fractured English-and was graduated cum laude. After training in neurology at the top places, Massachusetts General and Rockefeller University hospitals, Dr. Cotzias became a full-time researcher at the Brookhaven lab on Long Island, specializing...