Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...overdose of sophistication to say individuals can never resort to self-protection?" The Milwaukee Journal, also insisting that violence should not be condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
...Goetz case, however, is the stuff of myth: a frail, law-abiding citizen, bullied as a youngster, badly beaten by a mugger, gets a gun and lashes out at his tormentors. Like most myths, there is something in the story line to satisfy almost all who read about it. Still, Goetz is not a clear-cut hero. Psychologically, he may have been punishing the four youths for his earlier mugging. He had made some racist comments in the past, and clearly used more force than the situation called...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: With Friday night's victory, Harvard has now beaten Princeton three consecutive times. The last time Harvard achieved that feat was 1936-37...The Crimson cagers are 18-3 in their last 21 games...The Harvard record for most wins in a season is 20, which happened in 1945-46, when the Crimson went 20-3...Harvard's best shooter from the floor this year? It's Ferry, who's hit on 65-105 for a .619 average. Carrabino's hot on his trail, though, connecting at a .613 clip...Opposing teams have committed 123 more fouls...
...defeating if life begins to feel like death, if in fact nothing seems worth dying for. All our familiar complaints about the lack of heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling to it, hoard it; to determine one's own proper unhurried pace. We often apologize for wasting time, when all we mean is that we have violated someone else's standards of progress...