Word: beater
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...question to ponder over the post-World Series winter: How was it that Joe DiMaggio--a high school dropout whose favorite reading material was Superman comics, a man who was a lousy father, an unfaithful husband and a wife beater, a guy who was reluctant to enlist in World War II, someone who never did a meaningful day's work in the last 47 years of his life, who was monumentally vain and cheap and mistrustful--became a national hero...
...Eugene come by his scars? Why, long ago, his evil father dumped a can of gasoline on him and lit a match. Why is Arlene a drunk? Well, you see, her mother was a bag lady and her former husband a wife beater. Why is Trevor such a shy and skittish little do-gooder? Because he's afraid his nasty dad will return--can you guess whether he does or not?--and start hitting...
...Nixon the wife-beater, who, according to Summers' busy spinning of hearsay and rumor, hit Pat severely before, during, and after the White House years - blackening her eyes, sending her to emergency rooms. Summers' account is a tabloid masterpiece put together with no real evidence, only second- and third-hand eyebrow-waggling and inference-projecting. You get the picture when you see that Summers gives a psychologist's profile of your typical wife-beater ("rigid, impersonal, and inadequate to deal with stress," "values that respect rigid sexual stereotypes") and concludes - eureka! - "It is fair to say that Nixon conformed...
...Cheney was made chief of staff. "He made the system run. Everybody had access to the President, but it was smooth, orderly. He didn't try to be a deputy President." He even refused the limousine that came with the job, preferring to stick with his old Volkswagen, a beater so threadbare it had no knob at the top of the gearshift...
...year. Penn came in almost guaranteed the Ivy title. In the final home game for Long, who had become the biggest factor in the Crimson's offense, Harvard almost pulled off an upset win. Jordan's turnover with nine seconds left set up Clemente's attempted buzzer-beater, which clanked off the right side of the rim. Harvard lost...