Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly indoctrinated Islamic Guards. Troop morale is waning, and some expatriates say absenteeism and desertions are rife. Said a U.S. analyst in Saudi Arabia last week: "The gulf war has become a terrible replay of World War I, in which each side launches a terrible offense only to be beaten back by an even more formidable defense. The result: stalemate...
...most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind him. He had been very neatly destroyed...
...really the highlight of the season," Tate says. "It's true they've already beaten us, but that's what happened last year. They beat us in the regular season, 5-1, and then we came back and won in the Beanpot. With a strong performance from everyone, I really think we can do it again...
...animus? Within months of her betrothal at age 11, Phoolan was beaten and expelled by her husband for suspected infidelities. Soon after returning to her parents, she began attracting a male audience by bathing naked in the local river. Raped by a group of voyeurs, she blithely continued in her habits until her arrest in early 1979 on, ironically, a false charge of dacoity. After being raped by policemen and prisoners, she was released...
...rivalry between B.U. and B.C. was just as intense then as it is now. "B.U. had one of the strongest teams around. And, if I remember correctly." Dooley says, "we'd beaten Harvard twice that year. B.C. had a pretty good team, too, and there was a tremendous amount of rivalry between all three., especially B.U. and B.C. stemming over from football." So when B.C. downed B.U. in overtime, some of the players just couldn't control their anger. "Police on corted both teams out that evening and there wasn't as much partying that night." Dooley says...