Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Fernando Belaúnde Terry was taking the 24-hour general strike very seriously. Early Thursday morning, police pointed their shotguns at drivers of trucks with space available who tried to ignore workers seeking rides. Youths who were spotted trying to collect rocks or debris were chased, beaten with nightsticks and sometimes shoved into police vans. Jorge del Prado, 73, a senator and leader of the Peruvian Communist Party, was struck in the chest by a tear-gas canister fired at close range. Despite the numerous clashes around the country however, the day's toll was miraculously...
After Reagan's election, Allen telephoned me. He expected to be Reagan's adviser for national security affairs?a job he had also expected to have under President Nixon in 1969, only to be beaten out by a more solemn man, Henry Kissinger. Allen said I was a candidate for a Cabinet post. The first position mentioned was that of Secretary of Defense. I pointed out that military men are prohibited for a ten-year period after leaving active duty from becoming Secretary of Defense. General of the Army George Marshall's appointment in 1950 required a special...
...Withy, who had two. Martha Wood, who had six against B.C., Kristan Johnson and Allison Greis...The team has a long history, but was given varsity status earlier this winter by the Athletic Department...Brown is the reigning Eastern water polo powerhouse--neither Harvard's men or women has beaten the Bruins in the memory of anyone now associated with the sport...
...outraged about Grenada. "George said, with that slightly nervous tone of the 12-year-old who tends to get beaten up daily at the playground because of his enlightened views. He insists that moral imperatives require that girls be allowed to play kick-ball ("G'wan, eat dirt punk" was the most recent retort to George's plea, I think...
...Harvard icewomen, it was just more frustration. No player on the team has ever beaten Princeton in hockey, as the Tigers have compiled seven straight victories at the Crimson's expense over the last four years on their way to three consecutive Ivy championships...