Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their Soviet allies willing to see them beaten in a major engagement, as they nearly were at Kunduz. The city of about 40,000, straddling a main road to the Soviet border 37 miles away, fell to units of Jamiat-i-Islami and Gulbuddin's Hezb-e-Islami six days after the 10,000-man Soviet garrison pulled out. The guerrillas overran the government defenders and freed the prisoners at the local jail, but failed to capture the heavily defended airport. Within two days government reinforcements closed in, and Soviet aircraft went to work. After three days of fighting...
...Malone, who headed Shamie's 1984 campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), is taking another shot at the senior senator from Massachusetts, and Malone maintains Kennedy can be beaten...
...conservative activist, whose allies once claimed ERA would give America co-ed bathrooms and force women to serve in combat alongside men, is confident that her archfoes--the feminists--have been beaten. "There was very much debate from 1972 to 1976 and nobody wants it," Schlafly said. She called ERA "a rule that will require us to pretend that there's no difference between men and women...
...Robert Strauss, Jr. '83 was found dead last Monday in his home in Cincinnati, Ohio after the former Winthrop House resident and Business Executive of The Crimson was fatally beaten in a confrontation with a burglar, Cincinnati police said...
Strauss, who was an executive with Proctor and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, apparently heard a burglar enter his apartment at 144 E. Corey St., in the Mt. Auburn suburb of the city, police said. When he woke up to confront the intruder sometime Monday morning, he was beaten to death, police said...