Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops who retook Sunchon were as savage as the Communists had been. On the big compound of the Sunchon Agricultural and Forestry School we found what was left of the entire population of Sunchon. Women with babies on their backs watched without expression as their husbands and sons were beaten with clubs, rifle butts and steel helmets. They saw 22 of them marched away to the primary school nearby, and heard the volley of rifles which killed them...
...Getting beaten by a Leahy-coached team, rival coaches say, is as unpleasant as going through a meatgrinder. His great weakness as a coach lies in his aloofness. He is a superb organizer, a wonderful tactician, has a talent for inspiring great spirit in his players, who respect him but don't love...
Dartmouth has beaten the Crimson at Hanover, 15 1/2-47 1/2; Yale walked off with a 15-48 conquest; and Princeton eked out a 29-30 win. Mikkola's runners have not yet had a chance to test out the strength of the five otehr teams in today's Heptagonals...
...Queuille, trying to take a gingerly grasp on the nettle, got stung. He ordered troops, police, and republican security guards to seize mines threatened with damage; but, fearing civil war, he ordered them not to shoot. The government forces were outnumbered by strike mobs and in most places were beaten back with a heavy toll of injuries on both sides. Near St. Etienne, strikers tried to oust government forces from a mine already seized (see cut). At Firminy, where panicky security guards started shooting, against the government's orders, 40 strikers were wounded, two killed...
...Charlie who runs the saloon, the mining town itself, and practically everything in the neighborhood. Lieut. Powell suspects that she also runs the bandit gang which has murdered two soldiers who were guarding a gold shipment. In the course of hounding down the culprits for the Government, Dick gets beaten up and held up. In quieter moments, he listens to Burl lves sing, and passes the time of day with Charlie...