Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow, amid all the jostling for platform time, the combatants also managed to make themselves heard. Jordan's King Hussein, who had not been anxious to go to war but gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of aggression" before any peace talks could be considered. Unlike the intransigent Syrians and Egyptians, Hussein did not accuse the U.S. of tak ing part in the scrap. Instead of looking for scapegoats, he admitted that the Arabs had lost all by themselves. "It is apparent that we have...
...children spend hours playing in it," says Sypher's wife Doris, who is prepared to fight the code in court, if necessary. "They build new things into the tree house to make it over into what ever their imaginations believe it is. How can it meet building specifications when the boys continually change...
...Germans have grown old and tired," growls one French appliance maker. "They have given up and so have the Belgians. But we shall fight." So far ahead of their competition are the Italians that they bear such remarks with uncharacteristic calm...
...tragic figures; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Sequals, Italy, 34 years to the day after winning the title. At 6 ft. 5¾ in. and 267 Ibs., "Da Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted...
...people we fight in South Vietnam, it is now widely agreed, carry the banners of Vietnamese nationalism. They do this against former colonial officers whom we support. Gone, therewith, is the notion that people will rally to any alternative to Communism...