Word: beaten
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Meanwhile, former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, who knows something about purges, has popped into the headlines because of her splurges. Byrne, who was beaten after one term in office by Harold Washington in last February's Democratic primary, recently filed a campaign financial report with the state as required by law. It revealed that the then mayor paid her husband Jay McMullen, an ex-newspaperman, the extravagant sum of $166,000 for his work in the past year as a consultant to her campaign, while she paid out another $14,175 to her 25-year-old daughter Kathy...
...material evidence they were convinced that I was a potential enemy of the revolution. The real reason for my imprisonment was that I had constantly warned my friends and compatriots against a Communist takeover of our country. Because I always refused to repudiate my ideas, I was systematically beaten, kept in solitary confinement, physically and mentally tortured. My mind and my hands still bear the traces. I saw my companions tortured; I was both witness to and victim of a violent and ruthless penitentiary system...
...truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten up in his cell by the prison director and other high-ranking officials. After they had left, José Maria's back was just one vast, bloody wound. Even on the dawn of their execution, prisoners are unable to have the support of a priest...
Even some veteran Washington reporters protested that the story was being vastly overplayed. They blamed the yearning of their colleagues for excitement during a summertime news lull and one of the less attractive residuals of Watergate afflicting too much of the press: the fear of underplaying-and being beaten on-a scandal. The decisiveness of Reagan's election victory made the possession of a debate crib sheet seem irrelevant to the outcome. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill about Carter: "We had an extremely unpopular candidate who would have lost, debate or no debate, briefing book...
Despite the concern about the death and suffering of its victims, and despite the lack of any solution so far, health officials are optimistic that science will eventually conquer AIDS. "We've beaten other diseases, and we're determined to beat this one too," says HHS Secretary Heckler...