Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...next morning the Reds got scared when U.S. mortar fire started dropping near their position. "They made us take off our boots, and they tied our wrists with the shoestring," said Roy. "A couple of guys raised a fuss. I think they beat 'em to death...
...years." Nevertheless, the Phillies announced last week that Series tickets would not be sold until Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler gave his O.K. But while the pennant was still up for grabs, the Phillies' 5½-game lead early this week made them clearly the team to beat...
...Chicago, 88,885 football fans rushed the season, saw a team of college All-Stars beat the Philadelphia Eagles...
Born. To Brigadier General James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C. (ret.), 47, commander of the 378 marines who beat off Japanese attacks on Wake Island for 14 days in December 1941, now a Republican candidate for Congress, and Rachel Clarke Cooke Devereux, fortyish, his second wife (his first wife died while he was in a Japanese prison camp): their second child (his third), a son. Name: undecided-because, said the general, "we expected a girl." Weight...