Word: beating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation at the Chicago convention: "These were our children in the streets and the Chi cago police beat them up." The Gallup poll recorded that 56% of the people interviewed approved of the Chicago cops. What those people meant was: "Those were our chil dren who were doing the beating." They also meant that their view of themselves as a last moral bastion has become ever more frustrating...
...tension dissolved; Eagle was airborne, headed into a lunar orbit. Within four hours, the module had rendezvoused and docked with Columbia on the far side of the moon. Then Armstrong and Aldrin left the LM so quickly that ground controllers, caught by surprise, sounded a bit put out. "You beat us to the punch," groused Mission Control. And why not? The two moon walkers were as anxious to return to the mother ship as Columbia's Pilot Collins was anxious to see them...
Horses which beat all comers at any distance have class. Except for a Man O' War who never is pushed to his limits, all horses have been extended to their best effort before the end of their three year old season. The classier the horse the faster he will run--when tested...
SEVENTH--TWIST OF LEMON will have to run her heart out to beat these sturdy males...
...beat you out of there--I'll beat you out of there." The scream came from a young woman who'd been pacing up and down the hall. Her face was flushed and contorted. Again and again she raised her clenched fists to strike at her stomach. It was a scene she re-enacted many times and which would later echo painfully in my mind...