Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours at a time. On at least one occasion, a group of 100 men were taken to the local military headquarters to pick weeds for most of the night. "If we didn't move fast enough," reported a 17-year-old student from Bir Zeit College, "they beat us with their fists and sticks. One soldier told me, 'Your hair is too long.' I said, 'Why do you say that? Don't Jews have long hair?' He said, 'We do, but you shouldn't because you are not human beings...
Despite a quirky swing, Nancy Lopez is the pro to beat...
...crying. Travolta says now that the welling tears surprised him as much as anyone else, and they may be a sentimental, softening gesture toward his character. But they also make the scene something that lingers in the memory long after the flash has faded and the beat has died...
...beat that hustles John Travolta down that Bay Ridge block is provided by the Bee Gees, who are most anxious to inform you that they are not, thanks very much, "a disco group." A conglomerate would be more like...
Besides the various college squads, Harvard got some difficult challenges from minor league squads. The batsmen tied the Red Sox farmhands 5-5 on March 24 and beat the Pirates' minor leaguers 7-0 the following day before being put in their place by the Twins bushers and Dodger Triple-A stars, 10-0 and 17-0, respectively...