Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since November 1973 had so many Greek university students rallied in protest. At that time, the celebrated siege of Athens' Polytechnic University had provoked a violent clash with the army that helped topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political factions, swept through the streets of Athens with a more peaceful aim: to protest a grapeshot series of educational reforms known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment...
...housing compound, it turned out, Chung units offered only moderate resistance, which Chun's forces easily contained. Then Chun and his units moved on to the Defense Ministry. After that second clash with units loyal to the other detained generals, Chun successfully emerged with Defense Minister Ro Jae Hyun's own signature on the dismissal and arrest papers for General Chung...
Wilfred C. Smith, visiting professor in the History of Religion, called the crisis a clash between "two groups from different worlds...
...battle is refreshingly straightforward. No ideological clash is involved, just a personal power struggle waged with the vim and verve for which Chicago politics is justly celebrated. Ever since Byrne, 45, defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic in a major upset in last February's primary, she has tried to wrest complete control of the machine from the old guard. She knew how. When Mayor Daley was faced with a rebellious politician, Byrne's in stincts were: "Why don't you cut him up a little bit?" Lately she has been slashing so ferociously at errant machine members that...
...improvise, could move wherever they wanted. In one early scene Justin, who was supposed to be rebelling against Hoffman, showed his defiance by eating a bowl of ice cream after he had been told not to. But Justin, suddenly the improvisational actor, turned the battle into a ferocious clash of wills by taunting Hoffman with an upraised spoon. "It shocked me when he fought back," says Hoffman...