Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year or whether Abd-el-Krim can be decisively beaten this fall. Complete success on their part would be a great triumph, almost impossible, for Abd-el-Krim has organized the mountain fastness to hold them off until foul winter weather comes to his aid. An incident in the fighting in Morocco last week, was the report that more than 16,000 ex-German soldiers are fighting in the French Legion against the Riffs and doing well. Also that the ex-American aviators who have been organized into the Sherifian Air Guard to fight the Riffs have received a number...
...started another paper which grew rapidly. He continued to denounce corruption in New Mexico politics, naming persons and particulars. Once in walking through the state capital with his little daughter, a state officer whom he had accused of corruption suddenly struck him. For ten minutes they had a fierce fight on the spot, and then Magee pulled out victorious...
...incident broke the monotony of enthusiasm. At Christ Church a num- ber of larrikins (hoodlums) shouted: "Who won the War?" at the gobs. A fight might have ensued, but a shore patrol happened along and arrested a number of their brother gobs. Shore leave at Port Lyttelton was cancelled for a day, but the New Zealand press disowned the larrikins and festivities were soon resumed...
...difficult to write intelligently of a friend, more difficult to write of a friend who is as straightforward as is Davison, for his character, like that of most strong men, is clear and without picturesqueness, except such picturesqueness as always results when a man is ready to fight a clean fight well. Like his father, he has a keen sense of humor and a love of human beings. His understanding of their foibles and difficulties is extraordinary, and his assumption of many duties has been his only danger. He likes to aid whenever he can, and night and day devotes...
Reports began to filter in of desertions from Abd-el-Krim to the French. Several chieftains who had gone over to the Riffian leader were alleged to have offered to return, help fight the Riffians, if only the French would pardon them, grant them arms and munitions. At the same time, it was reported that the Riffians were subjecting unwilling warriors to barbaric cruelties, "such as cutting off their arms and legs in the presence of women...