Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellow citizens accorded the front row seats at entertainments to men who "and gained a victory in the foot races, the pentathlon, the wrestling matches, in that brutal sport, boxing, or in the most fearful of all contests, the pancratium, which is a hand-to-hand fight with nothing barred." He, believed it was wrong to field the city's athletes from the common stores, and to give him a trophy as a gift from the municipality...
...Four kilometres from Salas, a gang of Catholic extremists attacked my train which traveled ahead of the Juarez passenger train. The fight lasted half an hour and the enemy fled when they noticed they were attacking a military instead of a passenger train...
...Calvo, challenged next day, contemptuously replied that he would fight no one but President Siles in person. He named his seconds. He defied the President to name...
...Siles named two seconds. They called on the seconds of Dr. Calvo. Over thick cigars and thin-stemmed glasses there was talk. Then the four seconds, shrewd, announced that Dr. Calvo had turned his back on President Siles by accident, that there had been no insult, would be no fight...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...