Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question the rivalry between Harvard and Yale. Whenever the Crimson and the Elis clash, the two teams usually crank the level of intensity a notch higher...
...custody battles involve contending parents. The fight over a nine- month-old girl named Allyssa is a classic clash of cultures. The mother, Patricia Keetso, 21, is an unwed Navajo Indian who would like her daughter to be adopted by Rick and Cheryl Pitts of San Jose, who have been caring for the baby since birth. But tribal officials, fearing that the flow of Indian foster children to non-Indian homes threatens their survival as a people, are seeking to rear the baby on their Arizona reservation. The emotional case has become a symbol of tribal resistance to the baby...
...comments or to an earlier report that the United States was preparing to adopt a new get-tough policy following last week's skirmishes between Iran and the U.S. Navy. But the attack, the first since two ships were hit Tuesday in the aftermath of a major U.S.-Iranian clash the day before, suggested Iran was determined to show its ability to carry out shipping raids despite its losses...
Hours after the clash, Jewish settlers raided the nearby Arab village of Hawwara, smashing car windshields, beating villagers and breaking into homes, said Jihad Howari, the Israeli-appointed head of the village council...
Arab witnesses claimed the Israelis provoked the clash...