Its members have written gut-tearing tales of being battered by life -- being molested, beaten, cheated, raped.
I'm pretty sure every Freedom Marcher, every Civil Rights worker, every beaten, cheated, unjustly-jailed, and red-lined African American knew.
Well, tell that to Nicole Simpson, or Laci Peterson, or Ted Ammon, or Mary Jo Buttafuoco or Hedda Nussbaum or Christie Brinkley or Suzanne Craig or Jackie Battley Gingrichh) or Marianne Ginther Gingrichh) or Hillary Clinton or any other lesser-known spouse who's been killed, beaten and/or cheated on by their "normal, heterosexual" mate.
Rather, the quiet smile, reflective, born out of looking over his life and times; a smile tinged with a hint of mischievousness for having beaten the odds, cheated the hangman and knowing he had helped make South Africa and the world a better place.
The "purse" is the money wagered by the participants, if the winner can get away from the venue without being beaten up for cheating – and Pete's trainer always cheats.
She had kept her husband, who had finally become a really good husband, now that he was too old, too worn out, too scared, and too beaten down to cheat.
In a series of often-heated posts on the union's website, they have lashed out at a county inquiry into nepotism and cheating, beaten up on the fire chief and vowed to use their clout to influence any reform efforts.
When we got going at first light it was raining hard, and by the end of that hike – cold inside sweat-sodden clothes, drenched and blistered and utterly beaten – we decided to cheat.
I don't like being beaten by somebody that cheats or has been caught cheating.
The court described workers cheated of wages, beaten and deprived of food, something that should never have occurred anywhere, much less on American territory.
They are beaten in the immigration queues, cheated with exorbitant rents and, in some towns (Christian, I am sorry to say), told to stay off the streets after 8pm.
