Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major product of the reporters' work, a four-part series in April 1977, is full of sickening examples of beatings and harassment by the police of suspects, their friends and relatives. Often the victims had to be hospitalized for injuries sustained during interrogation at the Roundhouse, Philadelphia's futuristic police headquarters. In one such case recounted by the Inquirer, police raided a house without a search warrant, arrested a murder suspect without an arrest warrant, and beat four members of his family...
...then came Walker, blazing through the "B" bracket like a herd of longhorns on the Texas plains. Scotty breezed through three early matches, beat Dartmouth's Mark Schneider in the quarters (6-4, 6-3), and downed Yale's Brad Dressler in the semis (7-5, 6-3) to reach yesterday's finals...
...Rolling Stones, Richie Havens and the Beatles used sitars for an exotic flair. Jazz musicians John McLaughlin and John Coltrane, attracted to Indian music's minor keys and improvisations, extracted aspects of its theory (quarter tones, complicated 17-beat rhythms, a constant drone) into their musical structures. The result is an innovative, unique music style that fuses Eastern and Western cultures...
Higginson emphasized yesterday both the importance and the uncertain outcome of the race. "We're optimistic. Penn and Princeton have both beaten Navy, and if we're going to be anywhere this year we have to at least beat them too," he said...
...That really unnerved our players," Scalise said, adding, "You get beat on, get hit, and the refs don't do anything--it throws you off your game...