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In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat'
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You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.
ECONOMIST: Development
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When other games got battered down by scandals and undermined by selfish pretenders, at least there was Roger and Rafa, 26 Grand Slams between them, a pair of all-timers, holding the line.
WSJ: Jason Gay: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's Rough Patch