Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist Iron Guard made it abundantly clear that they disapproved of his hobnobbing with President Benes whom they consider far too sympathetic toward Russia for their peace of mind. In a bold manifesto, the Iron Guard declared they "will not hesitate to shoot Carol down rather than fight for Bolshevism...
...illness; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Mine mule-driver in his boyhood, Priest Curran enlisted the aid of his friend President Theodore Roosevelt to bring about a victorious conclusion to John Mitchell's historic United Mine Workers strike of 1902. Admirer and aid of John L. Lewis and his fight to unionize the coal industry, Monsignor Curran was stricken after his rectory was fired last Good Friday...
...National Union," said Father Coughlin of his organization day after election, "may be compared to Joe Louis in his recent fight against Max Schmeling. Our aim now is a trip to the showers, and a new training camp for our comeback, if and when it is required...
...swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that it buys full-page ads to fight foreign cars as such. Some of these advertisements attempt the fear appeal. In one, a British couple are shown shamefacedly scuttling out of their golf club, as the wife says to her husband, "I always feel uneasy here. We seem to be the only people with a foreign car." In another...
Back from the football field with a sad eye and a heavy heart. But, Lord, how the players in our camp did fight! Methinks it ungentlemanly bold to call it "moral victory", but the soldiers of Harvard worked with each other like the very wheels of a parlor clock. In the stadium came into my head the words...