Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to a question concerning Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat's recent criticisms of U.S. positions, Powell said, "If we have to let folks beat us over the head a bit while we keep our mouths shut in order to facilitate negotiations, then...
...problem was always how to organize a heart like Hubert's. It beat harder than anybody's, compelling its owner to laugh, shout and run off into every corner of America, bubbling with mirth and his special prairie exaltation. Too often he loitered along the political byroads of America, gabbing and shaking hands and studying individual faces as if each were from the easel of Michelangelo. Of course, he lost the big elections. And he danced with all the fat old ladies in the union halls after the speeches and the first beers. When asked why he squandered...
...lunchtime brawl. Just two weeks ago a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against teachers seem to be increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted...
...recorded a disco version of his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher. "I live good. I don't indulge in anything other than the normal indulgences," he reflected. Indulging in his famous hep jive, he also complimented the press: "It really grabs me to have these fine scribes to beat up my gums with...
...should do next. Said the Grand Dragon: "Take that fiddle and use it." In 1946 he ran for the state legislature and fiddled his way into office. Playing such tunes as Turkey in the Straw and Old Joe Clark, he drew campaign crowds and attention in town after town, beat out twelve other Democratic primary candidates, and went on to win the election...