Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nottinghamshire had beaten Harvard earlier by five lengths in the first running of the final, but a controversial protest by Parker was upheld because a one foot-long piece of wood had jammed on a fin on the underside of the Crimson shell...
Defiance like Mohammed's is only one crack in the facade of Palestinian unity. In the first 17 months of the uprising, nearly 50 Arabs were shot, beaten or hacked to death by fellow Arabs for collaborating with the Israelis; since May, that number has doubled. In fact, many are believed to have been gunned down to settle private accounts and labeled collaborators posthumously. Nonetheless, many Palestinians are appalled by the brutality, prompting an appeal in the latest leaflet from the uprising "not to eliminate collaborators without a decision by the leadership, and not before he is given a chance...
...Battle of Britain went on. Between July and November, the Germans lost 1,733 aircraft, the British 915. Though the blitz continued until the following spring, costing about 30,000 lives in London alone, the essential result was that for the first time, Hitler's military power had been beaten back...
...Austrian civil servant, born illegitimate as Alois Schicklgruber (Alois was 39 before he acknowledged his origins and took his presumed father's surname). Although Alois was nominally a Roman Catholic, he placed his faith in the whip. When the sixth of his eight children misbehaved, he was beaten unmercifully. Schicklgruber/Hitler died when Adolf was 13, a lively and artistic youth racked by the need for recognition and the appetite for vengeance...
...convulsive counterattacks, the Germans swept forward all along the front. Blessed by dry weather, the armored spearheads advanced as much as 30 miles a day. As early as Sept. 5, Germany's Chief of Staff Franz Halder wrote in his journal: "As of today, the enemy is practically beaten." The next day, the Wehrmacht captured Cracow, Poland's second city. Two days later, the first tanks of the 4th Panzer Division reached the suburbs of Warsaw, where they encountered sniper fire from apartment windows and found major streets blocked by overturned buses. While the tanks paused for reinforcements, the Luftwaffe...