Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government. On the eve of a new general election, Premier Pashitch had Raditch and several others arrested. Subsequently, a court ordered their release; but the Government quickly found more evidence against them and had them rearrested. But this was not enough; the aged Premier, who swore to fight rather than to yield to the federative demands of his political enemies, ordered the dissolution of the Peasants' Party. His celebrated iron list had descended...
Siegmund, the Walsung, loves his sister, Sieglinde. Hunding, husband of Sieglinde, fights Siegmund. Wotan sends Brünnhilde, his favorite Walkyrie, to turn the fight for Hunding. (Fierce are the Walkyries; they bear the shields of the warrior gods, and whir before them into battle...
...going to try to make the Senate interesting. ... I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office...
...present (Luther) Government is not directly implicated; but, as the scandal has become a first-rate political fight between the Socialists and the anti-Socialists, as the Government is logically bound to explain its predecessor's actions and as Foreign Minister Stresemann was Chancellor at the time, the present Government is certainly interested...
...answer the committee's private letter, declaring his [Mr. Brown's] lack of willingness to injure the company's reputation, as alleged, and stating that the committee's only aim is the success of the company. It is thought in financial circles that a fight for the stock control of National Enameling...