Word: beated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last match on Saturday, the varsity, at full strength for the first time this season, beat Amherst...
Were the Joint Chiefs prepared to back up this military mission with troops, ships and squadrons if something went wrong with the calculations, if the Communists beat the Nationalists to the punch again? Hadn't even Douglas MacArthur (who had influenced the J.C.S. decision to send a mission to Formosa) said that the island did not warrant the commitment of U.S. troops? What did the Joint Chiefs hope to gain by risking the U.S.'s reputation and its military mission in such a shaky gesture...
...villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas' abduction plans. They hid the children in ditches. The guerrillas, frustrated, took Sofia Makri and 20 other mothers to the mountains and tortured them. Said Sofia last week: "They hung us from pine trees. They burned our feet with coals. They beat us. When we fainted they revived us with cold water from the spring. Fourteen of us died up there but we did not tell. When the Greek army entered our village they found the dead living, for out of the earth came our children...
...that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...
Back home, the boy continues to steal, partly out of boredom and partly out of spite. When Gerald threatens to beat him, the boy imprisons himself in handcuffs and waits to be killed. To Gerald he cries: "Nobody's ever hated me before, like you do." Gerald protests his affection and the boy. as if suddenly peering into the sickest depths of the soul, replies: "It's the same thing...