Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pond and threatened to jump in if his father came any nearer. "Demands and counter-demands were presented for cessation of the civil war," Mao recalled. "My father insisted that I apologize and kowtow . . . I agreed to give a one-knee kowtow if he would promise not to beat me. Thus the war ended, and from it I learned that when I defended my rights by open rebellion, my father relented, but when I remained meek and submissive, he only cursed and beat me the more...
...stick you in his pocket, beat...
When he said: "We beat the record...
...grinding of gears. Heifetz himself, his usual platform poker face masking his nervousness, found it "hard to get going again." But by the time he had plucked and bowed Bach and Mozart across the U.S., Manhattan fiddle-fans found that the old Heifetz engine was still hard to beat...
...lead. Then something really went wrong with the calculations of Wisconsin's Gehrmann; his time at the three-quarters mark, with Willy still out in front, was 3:08, four seconds more than he had planned. Said Gehrmann later: "I knew then that I couldn't beat 4:05.3. I figured I might as well take it easy, and beat him in the stretch...