Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually the green crew improved its shooting. Affectionately they tagged the Juneau "the galloping ghost of the Korean coast." Officers who remembered the Solomons campaign spoke of the beat between southern Japan and Korea as "The Little Slot." Said a junior officer: "This is the only way to fight war for me, fat and happy, waiting for it to come to you. Good chow, showers and clean bunk." Rear Admiral John Higgins, whose flag is in the Juneau, smiled happily. This was what the Navy called esprit de corps. The Juneau headed back to her base in Japan...
...Kremlin has known for months that its stooges in North Korea could beat the South Koreans-provided the U.S. stayed out of the fight. Stalin & Co. calculated that the U.S. would stay out. The U.S. State Department and Defense...
True to form, the Canadian Communists stepped up the beat on their peace drums. Stopping off to speak in Saskatoon on his way to the Calgary Stampede, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was angered by Communist pamphlets. In hot, high temper he cried: "We can't in this world expect rights to be respected merely because they are rights. We have to have strength to enforce respect. You don't get peace by talking about...
...fortnight ago some upstart Americans, from a country which usually yawns at the game, beat the British, 1-0, in one of the international soccer matches at Rio de Janeiro. Last week, when Spain beat them again and ousted them from the World Championships, the London Daily Herald took note of it with a black-bordered, formal funeral announcement on the front page...
...Less modest, Hemingway later decided that he had outboxed his master. Said Hemingway in a recent interview: "I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal . . . But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better...