Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his Washington law firm, about twice what Secretary of State Cyrus Vance drew from his law firm on Wall Street. But Vance's assets-six Es, two Ds, three Cs, one B and two As (at least $750,000 and possibly well into the millions) beat Califano's three Es, three Cs and two As (upwards of $345,000). Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland's salary as a Congressman ($44,600) was more than double the $18,270 he took in from his 600-acre farm in Minnesota...
Goon Squad. Perhaps the best that one can expect is to be picked up by the Public Safety Unit (P.S.U.), which is charged with tracking down ordinary criminals. This strong-arm squad usually drags the victim off to Makindye prison and beats him blue around the genitals, then extorts money or property before letting him go. The power of the paramilitary agents is theoretically limited, but Amin pays little attention to their behavior, so they are free to beat, extort and even kill...
...Britons, is a victim of inflation. When word got out that she was selling family heirlooms and that she was getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace. Is it too much to ask that Parliament, by speedy and special resolution, now grant a modest pension to Sir Winston's widow? That at least would be an act of belated grace...
Jackie Proulx, the SMU coach, said, "We gave them trouble with our press in the first half but we didn't use it in the second half and that hurt us." She added, "They beat us on the boards in the second half," and that was the downfall of the SMU attack...
...contrast, artists like Ben evoke the colors and textures of the bird-of-paradise and dragonflies on Tropical's jacket--with a tremendous beat beside which disco and Motown sound pale. The rhythms have generally been slowed down until they sound like reggae, for the benefit of those unaccustomed to the frenetic pace of, say, the extemporaneous music that blossoms at every Rio street corner come Carnival time...