Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple in a parked car behind a drive-in theater. Hours later, their ugly pleasure taken, the rapists gagged the Negro girl, flung her on the floor of their car and sped off. Deputy sheriffs, warned by the girl's companions, chased the rapists at 90 m.p.h. and overtook them. The Leon County sheriff's office swiftly got confessions. The case came to trial only 39 days later. Circuit Judge W. May Walker presided as though the defendants and their victim had skins of the same color...
...Aided by financing and free education, veterans quickly overtook nonvets their own age in earning power (from 15% behind in 1946 to 19.5% ahead in 1956). G.I. education boosted incomes enough, reckons the VA, to pay back its $14.5 billion cost in extra income taxes by 1970. Vets not only caught up on the old standard of U.S. living but became a mighty force in kicking off the postwar boom in consumer durables by founding the new suburbs, filling them with TV sets, home dryers, cars. Cartoonist Bill (Up Front) Mauldin, like many of his lesser-paid buddies, now treats...
...Argentina, prices overtook a general wage increase of 60%, granted by President Arturo Frondizi shortly after he took office in May. With bigger paychecks bidding for the same goods and services, the cost of transportation has gone up 50%, newspapers 70%, a cup of coffee 60%, beer 70%, the movies 50%. Result: Buenos Aires movie operators struck for higher wages, closing theaters, and butchers shut up shop rather than sell price-controlled meat...
Dunster's football team, which overtook Winthrop in the last week of the season, suffered the Crimson's most crushing defeat, losing to Jonathan Edwards College in the championship game...
...Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers when illness overtook him this year (TIME, March...