Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night by bursts of gunfire that shattered windows in the cockpit and cabin. A freed Pakistani passenger said the hostages had tried unsuccessfully to overpower their captors. The Iranian government news agency claimed that the hijackers would soon "put all the Americans aboard the plane on trial" and had beaten one of the two remaining American hostages. None of the stories could be confirmed...
...digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains, "N-M-E L-E-N." A doctor holds aloft a test tube and announces, "I F D Q-R!" The whimsical drawings and ingenious punch lines are M-U-S-N from the beginning...
McEnroe and Peter Fleming will play Anders Jarryd and Stefan Edberg in the doubles. The American doubles team is 14-0 in Davis Cup play, but was beaten by the Swedes in their only previous match, a semifinal in the U.S. Open last September...
...addition HRAI is appealing for the release of Anatoly Koryagin, a Soviet psychiatrist, who has been sentenced to 12 years in fail and internal exile for publicly criticizing the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He has been officially stripped of his psychiatric degree, physically beaten, and is now unable to chew or swallow food as a result of a hunger strike which he initiated in January of 1983 protesting his arrest...
...Crimson entered last Sunday's game in Storrs, Conn, ranked fourth in New England despite having already beaten the number-one team (UConn, 2-0) and the number-three team (Yale, 1-0). But the 1-0 double-overtime win Sunday gave Harvard its first New England crown in 14 years...