Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ticket. Perhaps it all started with a beating that three Marines once gave one of his brothers because he opposed the Korean War. When that happened, Vincent gave his sons boxing lessons. "If you're going to hold radical opinions," he said, "you have to be able to fight...
...clash and clamor for attention like so many egocentrics in a group-therapy session. Carter describes his Piano Concerto as a conflict between man and society: "The piano is born. Then the orchestra teaches it what to say. The piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous." In the first movement, the piano lightheartedly followed the lead of the orchestra, then gradually swerved off on its own tangent, while the orchestra shouted its disapproval with great thunderclaps of dense...
...record of 141.74 m.p.h. "Why should they have everything?" Donald exploded. "By God, they won't have that record!" So Campbell, who by his own admission had "never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on the water and not much more on land," set out at 28 to fight his overmatch with speed...
...merger with the C. & O.B. & O. It will also reconsider the merger proposal of the Burlington, Northern Pacific and Great Northern, which was voted down narrowly (6-5) by the ICC last year. This was by another coincidence the 1902 merger on which Teddy Roosevelt staked his fight...
...face it," says one broad-vowelled Ivy Leaguer, "the army gets the people who don't have the where--withall--in brains or money--to stay out. The real leadership is avoiding it--no one with any sense would fight of his own free will...