Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert, sighting upward past tight-stretched wires that marked start and finish. The metal skin of the F106 touched 340°F.; a lot of its grey paint was burned off, and its Air Force insignia bubbled and blistered. It landed with almost empty tanks, but it had beaten Russia's record of 1,483.83 m.p.h...
Shortly before the beaten German armies surrendered in 1945, Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, received a secret appeal from Nazi Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler...
...what are you going to do? Rely on the Anglo-Saxons? They will treat you as a satellite. Range yourself with the Soviets? They will impose their rule on France and liquidate you. The only way to win greatness and independence for your nation is by an entente with beaten Germany. If you master the spirit of revenge, if you seize the opportunity that history offers you today, you will be the greatest man of all time...
...Soundly beaten in his candidacy for Governor of California last year, Bill Knowland slipped quietly into working harness on the Tribune, which has been in his family for 44 years. The Tribune seemed more than ready for a firm Knowland hand on the editorial side. At 86, Joseph Russell Knowland. Bill's father and the Tribune's publisher, was pretty well out of action. Bill Knowland's brother Russ, 57, was running the business end. And Bill's son Joe, 29. while willing, still needed editorial seasoning. Leaderless, the Tribune had drifted into some bad habits...
Peiping was replying to Washington's charge that a U.S. Marine of the Bombay consulate general staff was abducted and beaten in the Chinese consulate Friday after he showed up there with the Chinese...