Pumpkins were whacked, beaten, hit, rolled down a hill, tossed off a deck and otherwise torn apart, ripped open and smashed to bits Saturday. The annual day of reckoning came for the gourds at the ...
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Taking a beating

Confession time: how many readers have been beaten in their life? How many were beaten when they were at school? How many can still feel the effects of it?Of course, at the time, it may well have been ...