Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONSTANT cross that leaders must bear is deciding whether to fight, compromise or yield on a given issue. For Richard Nixon, who received only a minority of the popular vote in November and who faces an opposition majority on Capitol Hill, the burden is especially heavy. His own party is divided on some questions. His attention is dominated by the twin crises of the war in Viet Nam and inflation at home. His determination not to pressure legislators has resulted in a lack of clear communication with Congress even on routine matters. Out of what some...
...next day, in the course of episodic conversations during a five-hour White House visit, Finch found himself losing the argument over Knowles. Finally the President gave his old friend and longtime political partner the word: Knowles was not worth the bitter fight. Finch issued a statement in which he loyally-if not convincingly-took "full responsibility for the delay of this appointment...
...also symbolic of the Mexican-American's quest for a full role in U.S. society. What happens to Chavez's farm workers will be an omen, for good or ill, of the Mexican-American's future. For the short term, Chavez's most tangible aspiration is to win the fight with the grape growers. If he can succeed in that difficult and uncertain battle, he will doubtless try to expand the movement beyond the vineyards into the entire Mexican-American community...
...Trying to find a job. It's fight...
...such a "pervasive masochistic attitude" about their marriage that they go to the opposite extreme. Bottling up their anger, they convince themselves that their husbands are always right and become "love slaves, allowing themselves to be taken for granted and exploited." The accumuated tensions sometimes disperse after a good fight, and in many cases brief psychotherapy resolves the problem, but Pearlman reports that untreated hostilities can upset a household for weeks-and recur with each separation...