Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the student uprisings at Columbia University a decade ago, New York cops have been instructed not to beat or shoot at rioters. Said Deputy Commissioner Francis J. McLoughlin last week: "They were under orders to break up unruly crowds or looters by charging with their night sticks but not shooting over their heads." The cops were responsible for few beatings, no indiscriminate shooting and no killings. About 18 policemen suffered serious injuries...
Despite the overwhelming odds against success, East Germans still keep trying to beat the fence. Last year some 573 fled over the Berlin Wall and across the frontier; in the first four months of this year, an additional 204 made it to the West. But many fail. American patrols have had to watch helplessly as escaping East Germans have been gunned down by the border guards. Under strict orders not to violate East German territory, the G.I.s cannot do anything to help unless the escapees manage to reach West German soil...
...Republicans ran against him. and so Yarbrough easily defeated the write-in candidacy of a judge named Sam Houston. And though the State Bar Association filed disbarment charges against him, Yarbrough gloated: "The legal establishment has taken their best shots and I beat them...
Rochefort brings some freshness even to obligatory scenes like the one in which he must face his officemates decked out in a plum-colored suit, mod haircut and hip new manner. Nodding his head to an imaginary cool beat, he has the odd, rueful grace of a stork with something caught in its throat, and we can almost believe, that a young girl's heart would indeed...
Television, which got its start at CBGB's, wraps its big beat in mellifluous instrumental colors. Lead Singer Tom Verlaine's lyrics, like the following from Venus, are among rock's finest in years...