Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major drawback to Cannon is that the 200-men-per-10-minutes tramway is too slow for the large weekend crowds. Fast skiers who make the run in less than 30 minutes can beat the long delay by buying tickets for a ride in advance...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan's garment district, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender...
...sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...
...Among creative writers, a couple of "borderline cases" cropped up. Samuel Johnson had hallucinations and delusions (e.g., he believed that eating an apple would make him drunk). When he felt his "madness" coming on, Johnson had his housekeeper lock him in his room and sometimes beat him. Southey, a highly nervous type, had a breakdown...
Most U.S. college fraternities keep out Negroes and Jews, and in some cases Catholics. They don't talk about it. But their own silence has not kept others from talking. In Manhattan last week, 500 delegates to the 39th National Interfraternity Conference met to beat around the subject, if not to face it squarely. They went away seemingly satisfied with the justifications offered by their chairman, David A. Embury, 61, a Cornell alumnus ('08) and a member of Acacia. Said he: "There is nothing arbitrary or capricious or unnatural about . . . restrictions based on race, creed or color. . . . [Fraternity...