Word: combat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Council candidates all agreed that the city needs more police protection to combat crime against women on city streets, and most said they favored continuing the city's boycott on spending public funds to attend conventions in states that haven't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment...
Puopolo died on Dec. 17, 1976 of stab wounds sustained in Boston's Combat Zone 31 days earlier. He and several other members of the Harvard football team went to the Zone to celebrate the end of the football season...
...right to organize is granted to every worker in America, and collective bargaining is the only way I know to combat against the greedy," McBride said...
Pope John Paul II said it with hardly a wince, hardly a quiver of intimidation even with the Combat Zone burning bright to the South, with Kruggerrands on sale in banks down the street, with every journalist and photographer struggling in vain to convert him and his mission to a catchy cliche for sale on the morning stands...
What started out as an imminent Jordanian collapse was beginning to reverse itself. Tuesday, Sept. 22, brought good news. The Jordanians, emboldened by our moves and by the fact that the Syrian air force (under a general named Hafez Assad) pointedly stayed out of combat, were beginning to attack Syrian tanks around Irbid from the air. The estimate was that Syria had lost 120 tanks. The Iraqi forces [17,000 of them were still encamped in east Jordan three years after the Six-Day War that had brought them there] remained inactive. Egypt informed us that the Soviets had made...