Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor all week, Franklin Roosevelt could chuckle as he read these words and repaired to Hyde Park, leaving Congress to stew in Washington. Nature and Franklin Roosevelt make a combination hard to beat...
...last week, while Sir Dawson was in Belfast, three masked raiders called at his home, Magherabuoy House, Portrush. Briefly, but effectively, they beat his servants with revolver butts, ravished his desk, scattered his papers, turned his house inside out. Police astutely concluded that they had been searching for embarrassing evidence of recent burnings, beatings, bombings-evidence on the strength of which Sir Dawson might feel inclined once more to make use of the Civil Authorities...
Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...
...York critics have never been so appreciative of Werner Janssen's gifts. Though he is an earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...
...need it to convict, they introduced the man's own signed confession, secured at police headquarters. Fifteen police denied any third-degree methods. Liebowitz asked an old deputy chief inspector on the stand: "How long have you been a police officer?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever beat up a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, never." "Did you ever see a policeman beat a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, I never did." "How long have you been a policeman?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever tell a lie in your life?" The policeman, red in the face, stammered...