Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision stunned Government attorneys and operators. The miners had worked out a way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act injunction, which was designed to handle labor disputes in a national crisis. While Welly Hopkins received the congratulations of friends, President Truman took the only course that was still left open to him. Shaking his finger with mild indignation at the union and the operators, he asked Congress for authority to seize the mines. The power he asked for could put the mines under Government ownership until July 1, 1951. With such a chilling prospect before the operators, Lewis knew that...
...that he was no match for the catty, gossipy coverage of Hollywood's boudoirs, salons and saloons by Columnists Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Instead, he started covering Hollywood like any good, workaday reporter, still makes a daily round of the studios. Explains Johnson: "Hollywood is a City Hall beat, with bosoms...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...Anderson, who now plays in a Western band in Beaumont, Texas, the result added up to a song; he gave it a hillbilly beat and tried it on his steel guitar. After the war, he tried to sell the song, but everyone around Beaumont thought the whole idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean...
...another good fight, Arnie Horween, Jr. beat Eli Manos for the Yard Unlimited class title. Through Manos led for most of the bout, Horween finally won, again because of a fine last round. IN the toe-to-toe slugging that highlighted the final two minutes, Horween bloodied Manos' mouth...