Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely beaten, and bound, gagged, and stuffed into white plastic bags. Said Gavin: "We call on responsible authorities in the government of the Republic of Mexico to join us in intensifying the search for and the apprehension of these detestable criminal elements...
...often, an inexperienced reporter attempts to describe a dwelling as "attractive" or "impressive." This is incorrect. In journalese, all homes are either modest or stately. When confronted with a truly ramshackle fixer-upper, knowing scribes will deflect attention to the surrounding area, describing the residence as "off the beaten track" or "in a developing area," that is, a slum. Distaste for the suburbs is conveyed by mentioning "trimmed lawns and neat flower beds," thus artfully suggesting both compulsiveness and a high level of intolerance for life in its hearty, untrimmed state...
...match was particularly for the spikers, who beaten their arch rival since finals of the Ivy League two years...
...jolting revelations that Fedders had beaten his wife were contained in court papers in Maryland. Suing for a divorce after 18 years of marriage, Charlotte Fedders, 41, described herself as "a classic abused wife." An outgoing, statuesque (5 ft. 9 in.) woman, she had once worshiped her husband, a 6-ft. 10-in. former basketball center at Marquette University, and she routinely laid out his suit, socks and underwear in the morning. But barely two years after they were married, she testified, her husband struck her on the side of the head, rupturing an eardrum. Mrs. Fedders recounted that when...
...first and most obvious trap for 19th-century women was the institution of marriage. Forster's book begins with an essay on Carohne Norton, an English woman who was separated from her husband after he had beaten her several times Upon being separated Norton discovered to her horror that her husband had the legal right to keep her from secing her children and that he was the owner of any money she inherited of earned These two discoveries led her to crisade against the offending laws...