Word: beating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to have to beat them by a lot," said Seton, appearing slightly unsure about the council's chances...
...chance to grab power, he pushed the communists aside and refashioned himself as a nationalist. In 1987 he went to Kosovo, the cradle of Serbian identity, to soothe the grievances of local Serbs, and he made his name by declaring, "No one shall be allowed to beat you." Milosevic was moved less by Serb nationalism than by its power to electrify. "After that night," recounted a Serb journalist, "there was a psychological change in him. All at once he discovered he had this power over people." Says Veran Matic, director of the independent Radio B-92, which was a target...
...your age or disposition keeps you from club hopping, here's a tip: two of the hottest songs the kids are dancing to are spoken-word texts with a disco beat...
PROVENANCE: New Age guru Chopra gathered some of his Hollywood pals, including Moore, Madonna, Martin Sheen and Goldie Hawn, to record some of Rumi's love poems. Taken with Moore's track, a Staten Island, N.Y., musician added a techno beat...
PROVENANCE: A column Schmich wrote in 1997 achieved fame when it got sent out over the Internet, inexplicably and erroneously labeled as a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. Taken with Schmich's words, Luhrmann added a techno beat...