Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing fields of Athens last week, in the Mediterranean Friendship Cup series, the Turkish soccer team beat the Greeks. A Greek fan, Zafiris Tilimachis, 38, climbed to the Acropolis at sundown and jumped to his death from a rock. He left a note saying he could not bear his country's shame...
Turkish players entered the referee's dressing room. One made as if to shake the referee's hand, then socked him. Other Turks tried to beat up Italian players. Still mad, they wrecked their Athens hotel before leaving for Turkey, where the whole Turkish nation got into the fight. The Turkish ambassador called on the Greek foreign minister to protest. There were street demonstrations in Istanbul demanding the return of Cyprus, the Dodecanese and Dedeagach...
...Turkish poster sneered at Turkey's onetime Greek subjects: "You can all throw yourselves from the Acropolis rock, but you cannot beat those who were your masters for over 500 years...
Meanwhile the lonely old woman sits and remembers. "There's no reason," she muses, "for Nico to be Communist. Sometimes I blame myself because I used to beat him when he was a bad boy." Then her eyes kindle for a moment. "But he wrote me once," she goes on, "he wrote and said I was a good mother." She adds bitterly: "I was a good mother, whose womb has cradled a snake...
...Burns in The Front Page, was only a City Press cub on a routine assignment in 1903 when a blackened figure in stage costume suddenly popped out of a nearby manhole and gasped a few frenzied words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms...