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Word: fighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such signs of malaise over Wallace, the Nixon camp was determined not to become complacent about the monster in the woods. It was equally determined to fight him to the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Avoiding the Dewey Syndrome | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...case, money is probably not the major reason for their presence. It is not the land, either, for they seem to have no eyes for the green rolling infinity of the African bush, the visionary sunsets, the humming, warm, smoky nights. They are lobos, outcasts from society who fight every day in order to taste the excitement that comes in living close to violent death. If they survive Biafra, they will doubtless drift on in search of another war. Until then, their allegiance, temporary though it may be, is to Biafra and to Ojukwu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...such people who are supposed to know what is socialism and what is counterrevolution. This is what I find terrible, and that is why I went to Red Square. That is what I have fought against and what I shall continue by all lawful methods known to me to fight against for the rest of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Protest on Trial | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Edging Toward the Brink | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...presumably representative Hollanders. Says Hendrik Jan Diekerhof, 58, a retired Dutch army chaplain who runs Aktie: "The actual voting electorate in the U.S. is no more than 1½% of the world population. That 1½% decides for us in matters of war and peace, racial relations and the fight against poverty. The U.S. President meddles in our affairs. We should meddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Another Country Heard From | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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