Word: thrashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boys," a famous headmaster of Eton once remarked, "you must be pure in heart, for if not, I will thrash you till you are." For centuries, guided by such rough-and-ready principals, Eton turned out 19 Prime Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school...
...felt very nervous, but to my great delight, Mrs. Forrer, the president of the Society for Protection of Animals, said openly, 'I am here for prevention of cruelty, and I can't draw the line at children.' " Even today, it can be safer to thrash a child than an animal. The maximum fine for mistreating a child is $70; for mistreating an animal...
...become a greater disaster than the crash. As dark fell, a grim collection of bodies, many still strapped in their seats, began to collect on shore. A TV and radio call for skindivers brought hundreds to the scene. Only a few dozen were qualified, but none hesitated to thrash through the black, blinding water while boat propellers churned around them. In the confusion survivors were mistaken for the dead. Civil Defense Director Jerry Wyman uncovered a blanketed body, applied a resuscitator and brought one "dead man" to life...
...pick up," says a Bombay cop. Last week, 17 teen-agers were rounded up in Allahabad for talking to girls in the street, though 14 were merely reprimanded and sent home. In Lucknow, one harried police inspector prefers more direct action: "I just take them to the lockup and thrash them...
...just barely-a pair of pink slacks. These wonders notwithstanding, the most intriguing performers, as is only proper in a Good-Lord-Professor-Can-It-Be? film, are several dinosaurs. Their eyes blaze, their mattress-sized tongues flick menacingly, and their lank green hides glisten in squamous grandeur. They thrash about like lovers in a French art film, roar like convention orators and, when they are hungry, give new depth and meaning to scenery chewing. When two of them duel, Fairbanks-fashion, on the edge of a cliff, they very nearly succeed in bringing to life this tired...