Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manners. In Mobile, Lurline M. Kohler woke to find a stranger rummaging through her handbag, screamed, "Get out of my room!" to the would-be thief, who meekly murmured, "Yes, ma'am," put the bag down and beat...
Shtykov tells this story on himself: "When I was a boy, I was known as the worst boy in town. I used to bite people. One day my old grandmother was sitting weaving a sandal. Suddenly I bit her. She threw me over her knees and beat me with the sandal until my backside ran red with blood. Then I never bit anybody any more. I became the best boy in town...
...last week the U.S. took the sternest measures yet against the German "cigaret economy." Washington banned private shipments of American cigarets, indicated that U.S. personnel in Germany would get only enough for themselves. Black marketeers moaned. Said one, hopefully: "Clever American people will find a way to beat the law." But by week's end it was the clever Russians who were showing most of the enterprise. Four days after Washington's dictum, millions of American-looking Russian cigarets were flooding Berlin at 2½ marks apiece-half the price of U.S. cigarets...
...been imprisoned or exiled when they would have been executed in many other countries, abolished all capital punishment on Feb. 16, 1920, reinstated it three months later. Anti-Bolshevik Russians remember that Feb. 15, 1920, became known as the "Night of Blood" because the Communist executioners worked hard to beat the deadline...
...gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...