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Word: beating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farming again. The normally equable Fossey becomes a raging hysteric whenever she encounters a man who she thinks is selling poisonously nonorganic food to her fellow citizens. Serres, convinced that a friend is being driven to suicide by a brother-in-law's financial misdealings, sets out to beat some sense into the miscreant. Naturally he sets upon the wrong man. But no matter. His friend pulls back from self-destruction, but later goes ahead and kills himself anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Disconnections | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Fortunately for the Crimson as the going got tough the big guns got going. Becky Tung, playing at number two, beat Betsy Miller in three games...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Racquetwomen Entomb Middlebury, 5-2 | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

Anybody that is, except Harvard, and this is all that remains on Taylor's "things-to-do" chart for the season. He wants to wipe out a current eight-game losing streak versus Harvard, beat his former colleague Billy Cleary, and give the Yale fans one more big win before the Zamboni, comes off for the final time...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Want It, Crimson Need It | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

Against the Tigers on Sunday, however, Moore will have much tougher competition as she faces freshman Kris Kinney, who beat Moore 3-1 last year while she played for Andover. (I thought that meant she was supposed to come here...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Racquetwomen Entomb Middlebury, 5-2 | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...friends--Janice, with whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They hadn't even seen Dreyfuss, but were nonetheless preparing to beat a Hasty Pudding Retreat to the egress at intermission. Marguerite asked the inevitable question: "Is this what all Harvard shows are like?" Mumbling something to the effect that she had missed the point of these affairs entirely, I followed her out the door...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

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