Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highways and other critical areas, meteorologists have used giant fans, rotating racks strung with nylon strands and chemicals dropped from planes or spewed up ward from strange machines on the ground. Now the U.S. Air Force thinks that it has found a practical new weap on in the continuing fight against fog: the helicopter...
...skillfully ran the state's labyrinthine school system as an independent duchy that critics and supporters alike called "the fourth branch of government." Allen, who controlled schooling from pre-kindergarten through college, raised education expenditures to 40% of the state's $5.4 billion budget and led the fight against Northern de facto segregation. There is no doubt that he plans to exercise equal influence as the nation's top educational official. In his first statement after his appointment, Allen urged "a massive attack on the education needs of the disadvantaged and the ghetto residents"; he stressed...
Instead of fighting, the two played a game (a fight substitute), in which they stood an arm's length apart and, with no other weapon than that of slapping each other's hands, tried to make the other lose his balance...
...other event of the morning session was the group's decision to let one of the old women named Jessica fight her way into the circle. It was a traditional game, which they played because Jessica, who had said even less than the boy, suddenly told the group that she felt like an outsider. The group, at June's suggestion, formed a tight circle, standing up, with arms and shoulders and hips locked--and with Jessica on the outside. It was her role to fight...
...decision was made by the Executive Committee of the department--consisting of Roger W. Brown, chairman, and the chairmen of each of the department's four sections--after a meeting with the leaders of the section on "Community Organizing: The Fight for Rent Control in Cambridge...