Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True, this flood seemed to be worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters as they had fought against them before. But the danger was still far to the north. That, without even fighting, they should abandon their homes, gather in refugee camps, become objects of charité? well, a fine man, a great man was "M'sieu Jean...
Many a picture has been taken in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, of reeling, dripping men with their eyes swollen shut, their noses bleeding, their knees weak, their arms painfully raised to strike each other more blows for the glory of becoming champion pugilists or for the bald necessity of fighting to earn a livelihood. People glance idly at these fight pictures at home, in the newspapers...
...University riders will enter the intercollegiate tournament at Rye, New York, from June 18 to June 25. Yale is favored for the title, while Harvard and West Point are expected to fight it out for second place. The loss of Pinkerton will probably be a blow to the Crimson's chances...
Meanwhile, in London, the House of Commons was the scene of a quiet, determined fight upon the bill which was the source of Mr. Macdonald's vexation...
...with the time that Pocahontas rushed in and saved him. The old chief I got it from told me that. I was five years old and so drunk I could hardly stand up the day I took it out of his tent, after he'd been killed in a fight...