Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campfire with a stick and drown that fire twice./ Now, it's no more Mr. Nice Bear, 'cause I've had enough of you./ Just one last time I'll speak my mind and here's what you better do:/ Wipe out your campfire, beat out the embers, drown it with water all the way through./ Get all the red out; make sure it's dead out. Or Smokey the Bear will break you in two." Like a match, no doubt...
...crushing defeats, Australia's loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...
...seeking to have him removed as co-administrator of the estate, charging that Lummis had a conflict of interest as both co-administrator and Summa chairman. Lummis' answer was to fire Davis as Summa chief counsel (he had earlier kicked him off the board). A hard man to beat, Davis simply moved his power base to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, run by the oldtimer triumvirate of Davis, Gay and Nadine Henley, Hughes' onetime assistant. The institute is a tax-free foundation that Hughes established in 1954 as sole owner of Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (estimated...
...suit charges that Irving Richards, a Harvard-employed detective, and his assistant Raymond Palmer assaulted Regan with a revolver and beat him severely in 1974, during their investigation of the coin theft...
...visitors countered shortly thereafter when halfback Bruce Malverty beat Crimson adjuster John Tuke and hauled in a 51-yard bomb to tie the game. On Colgate's previous possession, quarterback Bob Relph had hit Dick Slenker wide open at the Harvard goal line, but the ball had bounced right off the receiver's chest...