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With more anger than accuracy, some newspapers charged that a platoon of U.S. paratroopers was maltreating Mexicans on Mexican soil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago Mrs. McLaughlin heard that a Morton Grove farmer named William Schroeder was maltreating his hogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Good heavens!" he cried, stung by the way fate was maltreating him, "I have never experienced anything like this before.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)