Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground that bussing destroys "freedom of choice," and has opposed the open-enrollment system that permits Negro parents to register their children in predominantly white schools. Though a 1965 state law to promote racial balance now makes some student bussing unavoidable in Boston, Mrs. Hicks promises to fight the measure, condemns its goal as deriving from "arbitrary decisions based upon unproved sociological theories." At the same time, she insists that she is an "ardent believer in civil rights for all," noting that her best friend in law school was colored...
...volunteers flocked to the colors by the thousands. Wealthy contributers gave yachts, and financed whole regiments to help relieve the beleaguered Cuban revolutionaries after decades of Spanish oppression. No matter that the President, all but one of his Cabinet, and much of the business community opposed a fight with Spain. Wild enthusiasm for war had been whipped up by the "yellow" journalism of the day, particularly by Pulitzer's New York World and Hearst's New York Journal. Letters calling for war came in from every part of the country. One angry Senator burst into Assistant Secretary...
...Fellow Biafrans, where will you run? We ran away from Lagos, and fled northern Nigeria by the thousands. In the battlefields, we ran and allowed the enemy to advance. Must we also run in our homeland? Face the enemy and fight him-street by street, house by house. This is the moment to die bravely for Biafra...
...Ibos were terrified that further resistance might trigger a huge massacre of the kind that cost them many thousands of deaths in Northern Nigeria last year. As for General Ojukwu, he had to decide whether to surrender and throw himself on Gowon's mercy, stay in Enugu and fight to the death, or flee to the Ibo heartland south of Enugu, where he could carry on a guerrilla war. Whatever choice he makes, Biafra seemed doomed...
...vowed Griffith. "I'm going to bend it. Then I'm going to knock him out." Bene, sighed Benvenuti, quaffing his Chianti-let him try. If it was a Pier Sixer that Emile wanted, Nino would oblige. "The first fight was rough," he said. "This will be rougher...