Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harker recalls that one night, half a dozen hungry prisoners angered their guards, including Garwood, by butchering and preparing to cook a cat. They were forced to stand at attention until a prisoner named Russ told the Viet Cong that he had killed the cat. The Vietnamese guards then beat and kicked him. Says Harker: "Bob Garwood came up to us and said we were all going to have to pay for what happened to Russ. Bob blamed us for what had happened. He hit me one time in the ribs, but hurt my feelings more than anything else...
John Durkin, New Hampshire Senator: "In New Hampshire today, the Ayatullah Khomeini could beat Carter...
...search of ways to beat the oil-import bind, some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced...
...stroke Liz Siderides was not impressed with her boat's upset of the varsity. "This kind of thing happens every year," she said. "Last year the third boat beat the J.V. in the first race of the season, but it never happened again. All that's important is that both boats beat Williams our most difficult competition of the year...
...were only 28 seconds left in the half to answer the Quakers' next goal, taking a nifty pass from Predun and causing a momentary white blur between his stick and the upper corner of the twine. Penn's Peter Eisenbrandt, however, took only five seconds to face-dodge Egasti, beat First, and give Penn a 3-2 halftime lead...