Word: beate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Najafabad, located near the industrial city of Isfahan, security forces were reported to have gone on a rampage against political dissidents. In the holy city of Qum, soldiers fired on a group of marchers. In the northeastern town of Mashhad, troops and police burst into a hospital and beat up the staff for having tended injured protesters...
...church steps Sunday mornings was an autumn ritual across the South. The Georgia people would crow, while Tennessee fans sulked and the interlopers from Florida had to listen to the abuse of the Auburn backers. The only time everyone agreed on anything was when one of "our teams" beat a Yankee school-the definition of Yankee being so broadly construed that it included Nebraska, U.C.L.A. and Texas, as well as Penn State and Syracuse...
Jones saw the handwriting on the wall, and the words spelled nuclear war. So choosing to march to a different drum beat, Jones' disciples followed him into the jungle. Their humanistic dream: to build a better world. But, as it turned out, the handwriting was a forgery, the drummer was mad, the humanism bankrupt and the dream a nightmare...
...money, and the hours, would be hard to beat, but McEnroe had other good reasons to be pleased. On the previous weekend, his temper well under control, he had led the U.S. team to victory over the British in the Davis Cup matches in Rancho Mirage, Calif, winning two singles without losing a set and overwhelming Buster Mottram in the key contest. No one in the 68 years of competition for the Cup had ever taken two singles matches so decisively in the finals. The win was the first in six years for the American team, which has been shunned...
Bacall's autobiographical voice is not so sultry, seductive or worldly. "I am in love with the Arch of Triumph-aside from the Lincoln Memorial, it is the most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...