Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Committee submitted last month what was clearly its final offer. It was approved by the State Board of Education last Wednesday. Now, the fight is over--at least for the next six months, until the School Committee has to submit a new year's plan to correct racial imbalance...
...narrowed down a starting field of 140. Nayar breezed through six opponents without losing a single game and ousted third-seeded John Thorndike in the semifinals. Terrell, seeded fourth, made it easily to the semifinals where he beat Pete Wheeler 3-2 in a close match to earn the fight with Nayar...
Perverse Sympathy. He never did. In fact, Hoffa's stubborn fight against imprisonment touched a perverse chord of sympathy among his union members. Casting himself in the role of Jean Valjean, Hoffa shouted: "To hell with all our enemies"-and his Teamsters loved it. He played to the hilt the fiction that he was the persecuted Everyman, the scapegoat of the Establishment...
...Hindu prayers by Sometime Guru Allen Ginsberg, who has survived the transition from beat to hip. Even members of Hell's Angels, the roughknuckled, leather-jacketed motorcyclists in Nazi drag, turned up to turn on: some were seen holding lost children or gently shaking tambourines. Not a single fight marred the Be-In, and as the sun went down (to the sullen wail of Ginsberg blowing a conch shell), the forgathered hippies quietly cleared every bit of litter from the park. Officials later said that they had never seen so large a crowd leave so clean a field...
...they joined) and the kind of background that would prove most useful in community development. Between them they were able to teach first aid, child care, swimming, carpentry and auto mechanics at the Casa del Obrero of Manta; in their spare time they managed to organize neighborhood cleanup campaigns, fight bubonic plague and build an oven for the local school's hot lunch program...