Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways. Reporters who arrived to cover the rioting were beaten. Two white women were raped. Later in the week, rioting broke out in the port city of Liverpool's Toxteth district, also the scene of racial disturbances...
...Tarczy rarely gets beaten. Defensive Backfield Coach, Leo Fanning lists Tarczy's ability to recover, his good hand-eye coordination, his speed, and his quickness as his best skills...
Contrary to popular opinion, he said, the "ambulance chaser" is seldom the first person at the scene of the accident--lawyers are often beaten by "the insurance agent who comes out of the gas pipe...
...Crimson had never beaten Brown, and for Tri-Captains Brian Johnston, Jon Sandler, and Rob Strauss, the Friday triumph vindicated four years of frustration...
...number of major league players who actually applied to join the minor leaguers in a mandatory testing program now four months along. Whether there are enough to spur the union now is the question. Because by week's end Ueberroth's deadline for responses expired, and he was beaten back into the dismal channels of collective bargaining. Though not cleaving to every comma in the limited testing agreement already in place, Fehr seems unlikely to sway very far from the standard principles of a free society, where ballplayers are as receptive as most workers to mass indictments and virtue detectors...