Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing such prospects and resentful of the seeming indifference of the rest of the country, farmers are understandably in the mood to beat their plowshares into swords. Talk of a farm strike began last July as grain elevators filled to capacity; excess wheat spilled into the main streets of rural towns and prices began to slide seriously. Disgruntled farmers staged impromptu demonstrations. In Clarkfield, Minn., a tractor caravan of 500 farmers spearheaded a protest. Jon Wefald, a former Minnesota agriculture commissioner, urged the protesters: "Do like the sheiks did with the oil. One day they sat down and said...
...have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were unable to downplay the riot, which was seen by some Western diplomats. Eyewitnesses reported that one policeman was stabbed to death and another killed when rioters beat him on the head with a beer crate during the three-hour melee. At least 200 young people were injured, and 700 others were held by police in an underground parking lot beneath the Alexanderplatz for post-concert quarantine...
...world for refusing to cooperate with the administration's investigation of the stabbing. During that month, there have been at least two more stabbings, two serious assaults, and one major racial incident involving about 25 inmates. Five state legislators visited Walpole this week and returned convinced that the guards beat prisoners who fail to answer questions, as well as being outraged at the physical conditions of the cells. Prisoners in other blocks in the maximum end tell gruesome tales, like the man who dangled 30 feet from the third tier for refusing to cooperate. Things have been heating...
Freshman sensation Susan St. Louis once again paced the Crimson attack, netting one goal and firing several other near misses. St. Louis set up Harvard's first score at 15:20 of the first half, when her shot beat the Tufts goalkeeper and a desperate Tufts defender had to knock it away with her hands. Kathy Batter drilled home the ensuing penalty shot to give the Crimson a lead it never relinquished...
...Crimson added a third tally when Sally Kingsberg chased a Jenny White pass deep into the corner, caught the Tufts goalie coming out to cut off the angle, and beat her to the near side with a nifty leftfooted shot...