Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday's second game, Kirkland House rebounded from last week's disappointing loss to SoHo to beat Eliot...
...above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists who were leaking state secrets, and the blacks who were rioting and attacking private property--so he sent his most rabid loyalists to prepare a bill to revise the criminal code and beat back Communists who were obviously responsible for all these disturbances--and S1 was born. Why is Kennedy, who bills himself the last hope of the liberals, backing it? If you want to be President you have to appeal to the center and the right--and being tough on crime...
People will interpret the question as an attempt to restrict Harvard expansion, she added. "They'll get an anti-Harvard contingent to vote for it, then beat us over the head with it," she said. "We've gotten people to write to city councilors, and they don't like it much...
Since Teddy Roosevelt issued that paternalistic "corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, the U.S. has patrolled the Caribbean like a cop on a beat, using its "big stick" to enforce the "primary laws of civilized society." It has aborted revolutions, overthrown unacceptable governments, and sent in troops to restore order in several Caribbean nations, including Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Today, however, the Caribbean can no longer be considered an "American Lake." Travel ads entice U.S. tourists with the promise of swaying palms and unspoiled vistas of sandy beach. But the nationalistic winds sweeping through the Third World...
Like Woody Allen, with whom he is sometimes compared, Brooks, 40, finds his humor in remembered pains. His parents broke up when he was very young, and he grew up as the loneliest boy in North Bergen, NJ. "You remember that kid," he says. "You probably beat him up a few times." He got attention by being funnier than anyone else around, managed to limp through school, then slide unhappily through a semester at New York University in Manhattan. He broke into television at CBS News, and then moved west in 1965. Soon after, he developed the concept for Room...