Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurses, under whose care Professor Spencer is now recuperating, described his condition upon entering as clearly one of "ventricular fibrillation,"--which decoded, means that the pulse beat is too faint to count...
Members of the Harvard Ski Club doffed their seersucker jackets and white buckskin shoes last Sunday to beat Dartmouth's Indians in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom...
...teams were recruited from graduate, undergraduate, and ski club members of the two colleges. Indian Brooks Dodge beat it to the flag in 52.2 seconds with Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian exchange student from the Business School, taking a close second for the Crimson...
Eugene O'Neill got a soaking in London too. The Times Literary Supplement seized the occasion of The Iceman Cometh's publication there to beat him black & blue. The characters in his plays were described as generally "ineffectual egotists," his philosophy was "jejune," Strange Interlude "badly bungled," Beyond the Horizon's leading man "a peevish Hamlet who whines and snivels," and the O'Neill dramaturgy generally "the sort of stuff that might be written by an earnest sophomore...
...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...