Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morton castigated "extremist groups in our society who fear Polish hams as much as they fear any new gesture toward world peace." He prodded the White House to fight hard for the treaty's passage, told colleagues that they should not let the Viet Nam war stand in the way of East-West understanding, despite the fact that many were resentful because Russia supplies 70% of Hanoi's imported war materiel. His persuasiveness eventually won over a majority of the Senate's Republicans (who were 22 to 13 in favor of the treaty). Even Ev Dirksen finally...
...legacies of the land are more deeply embedded in American emotions than the Grand Canyon and the redwood forests of Northern California. Yet, because of their commercial potential, conservationists have had to fight to preserve them. Only last month they beat off-for the time being-an Administration attempt to build two dams that would have flooded both ends of the Grand Canyon. Now their principal concern is the soaring redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens...
Under Mao Tse-tung, Canton (pop. 2,500,000) apparently is still the same old city. While the rest of China has been subsiding toward some measure of normality, pro-and anti-Mao factions in Canton last week continued to fight the battles of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Radio Canton warned that local party officials opposing Mao were "increasingly more cunning, insidious and vicious." The Maoist Southern Daily shrilled that the "crucial moment" was at hand in the clash between Canton's "two classes, two roads and two lines in the cultural revolution...
...northwest of Manila. Finally, an officer arrived with a search warrant. What the Con stabulary found inside was worth waiting for: shadowy Dominador Garcia, 34, alias Commander Ely, the No. 3 man in the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,-the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks. Garcia surrendered without a fight...
With blood streaming from Galento's mouth, the referee stopped the fight after four rounds. Last nights referee should have been as merciful to the audience...