Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compound but were captured by a group of militants on a nearby street. When he was finally released last week, Lopez told his parents in Globe, Ariz., that for much of the past 14½ months he had been "kept in some really bad-hole places, like closets," and beaten several times. But he added, "At least I got some of the others out, right...
...they sought from him he did not specify. He did not discover that his mother Wynona was actually alive until he phoned home last week. He told her that he had refused to tell the guards anything but his name, rank and serial number. As a result, he was beaten and one of his teeth was knocked out. Most of the hostages were allowed 20-minute walks outside their rooms once a week without harassment, but Jerry Miele, 42, a communications officer, had to beg for his walk. When he did get out, a guard kept playing with the trigger...
...there appeared to be few classical music lovers in San Salvador's barrios. The guerrilla attacks were beaten off by withering rifle fire and grenade attacks by the army. The government declared martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Less than 24 hours after the start of the offensive, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte called a press conference to deride the leftist efforts as "an absolute failure." Stores and businesses opened as usual the next day, and workers generally stayed on their jobs...
...Twinkie," somebody says to his friend. "You couldda beaten Hagler. Wid a gun! Wid a gun!" He is taken with his own joke, and keeps repeating the punchline to gall Twinkie...
Dave Hale is just a touch worn down, maybe about nine-tenths beaten to a frazzle. But he hangs in there, functioning on pride and coffee. He sells a porcupine for $100, which is about $98.75 more than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only...