Word: beater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finisterre, the victory was a kind of vindication. Ever since her swift, shallow hull lines were laid down on the drawing board of noted Naval Architect Olin Stephens four years ago, competitors have complained that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened...
EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice...
...Bobbettes; Atlantic). A bestseller all about a suave-moving gent named Lee who is the cynosure of roving female eyes: "One, two, three Look at Mr. Lee Three, four, five Look at him jive!" Sung with a frenetic enthusiasm that suggests an itchy beater flailing the bush for quail...
Only Mother. Testimony was bitterly sordid on both sides. Joanne called her husband a "drug-sodden wife beater" who so abused her that she "lay down to die." Patiño in turn denounced her as an adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
Ready said Cosgrove had been "aggressive and a brow-beater" in his handling of gamblers and bars selling liquor to minors, but that he himself was of the same frame of mind as the sergeant about "gamemen and vice." He added, "that is why I became chief of police...