Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future of European Democracy could handily be visualized in London terms. It was just as if No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley should put himself up as a candidate at a by-election and be taken so seriously that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with an appeal plunging the Church into politics...
...swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer cold. Horrified, he discovered he had floored his Lieutenant, a court-martial offense. From the guardhouse he was released to fight at Seicheprey...
...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct as action. Ralph Bates's second novel never mentions Spain's civil war or the state of Europe. It is the tale...
...found themselves in the same sponge-divers' gang. The work was punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...