Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tommy stepped back a little, said nervously: "Give me five dollars and I'll beat...
This immigration had been different. The Puerto Ricans came not by ship, huddled in the steerage, but by plane. Being U.S. citizens, they beat at no immigration bars, never had their pictures taken in colorful native costume behind the wire enclosures of Ellis Island. They simply seeped in, landing by 20s and 30s from battered planes at La Guardia field, Teterboro and Newark, suddenly appearing beside their cardboard suitcases on the city's sidewalks outside a hole-in-the-wall travel agency...
...corner of 85th Street, as pennies and nickels rattled into the coin box, Driver Coyne thought he spotted an arch foe: the cheapskate who tries to beat the fare. Angrily, he demanded the rest of the 7? fare. As angrily, the passenger shouted back that he had paid in full. Coyne gave up: "All right, Jack. Forget...
...play a party-throwing lady diplomat in a forthcoming musical (Call Me Madam), showed up an hour and 40 minutes late for a dinner engagement with party-throwing Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Reported Ethel afterwards: "We wound up with our arms around each other, yak-yaking to beat the band. A real swell dame...
...Senators' hit & run play last week (with Outfielder Ed Stewart scoring the run) broke a seventh-inning tie with the Boston Red Sox, who, on paper at least, should beat Washington by just appearing on the field. And once ahead, the Senators stayed ahead. In the ninth inning Boston got two men on base, and Sox Sluggers Ted Williams and Vern Stephens were due to hit. Bucky Harris picked up the dugout phone and summoned Relief Pitcher Mickey Harris (no kin) from the bullpen. Mickey subdued Williams and Stephens with harmless infield groundouts...