Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissent in the U.S.S.R. Yakir, who had spent 17 years in Stalin's forced-labor camps, admitted his guilt both on the stand and later at an extraordinary public news conference, thereby escaping a prison sentence. Before his trial, however, Yakir had told a British reporter: "If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps...
...participants in yesterday's demonstration spent Sunday night camping at Green Belt Park and then took buses to Capitol Hill. Marching through the mall towards the Capitol building, the protesters beat drums and sang traditional Indian hymns...
Already MacArthur has found half a dozen converts, a tiny band of practical-minded natives. Paul Atkinson, dry and leather-lean, with a wit to match, is in the process of setting up a cabinet shop. He plans to beat the high cost of lumber and control the quality of his product by sawing and milling his own wood. An old chicken incubator stands by for ingenious use as his kiln...
Poppers with a risky bang Amid the flashing strobe lights and pulsating beat of music in discos across the country, too many dancers are moving frenetically these days to the throb of their own physical highs. For them, Saturday night fever is heightened by a tiny amber bottle openly - and legally - held to the nose and sniffed. The contents, isobutyl nitrite, smell a bit like burning rubber, and the effect is intense and brief - lightheadedness and a sudden rush that makes the heart race and the body quiver. But the chemical's aftereffects can be most unpleasant: headaches, nausea...
...then there lurks, as ever, the wonderful world of big business. To add to the normal abuses that constitute "good business" in America, every now and then factories turn out products that manage to beat out their planned obsolescence by several years, and with a vengeance. A classic example if the Ford Pinto, circa 1971-'75. It seems there's something wrong with the gas tanks in some of these Pintos that causes them to explode after a direct, though not necessarily hard, rear-end collision; this tends to fry the unlucky occupants. Late last year a California man sizzled...