Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain" will be shown to be stupid. All that one can say is that the Conservatives would prefer to settle with the miners at the beginning of a five-year period of office than near the end of their present term. Prime Minister Edward Heath has already lost one clash with the miners, two years ago, and in view of his "get tough with the unions" stand, he dared not give in again...
...Moslem against Moslem. On the long-embattled 630-mile border between Iraq and Iran, troops of the two oil-rich nations blazed away at each other last week in a battle that left perhaps as many as 65 dead and 103 wounded. It was the third and most serious clash in less than two months, involving tanks and artillery. Each side claimed that the other had initiated the hostilities, but both in fact had been spoiling for the fight...
When the Crimson five takes to the hardcourt tonight at 8 p.m. for a clash with the Big Red from Ithaca, it will try to give Jenkins and Wolfe a winning send-off to remember...
...assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
Coming off an exciting Beanpot victory over Boston University last Monday night, and looking ahead to tonight's all-important Ivy League clash with Cornell, the Harvard icemen had trouble getting psyched for last night's encounter with ECAC basement-bound Colgate...