Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's early success sent the Cadets running for cover, but the invaders still had a little fight in them. Lacking goal-scoring power, Army still turned Bright into a battlefield. Bodies flew. Benches cleared...
...picking a fight with Brown, the city chose an unusual case. The daughter of New Jersey factory workers, Brown grew up in a loving family, according to a sister who asked not to be identified. Their father was ordained as a Methodist minister. "We were raised to have middle-class values," the sister said. "The judge and the civil liberties lawyers say that her life-style is O.K. Given what Joyce once was, given what we want Joyce to be again, that is definitely not O.K.! To sleep and defecate on the street . . . Is that what people are reduced...
...Senate. Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative curmudgeon, once growled, "No way, Jose," at the prospect of Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a "fine" Justice. Liberals are mostly being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from...
...annual meeting. The group admits young members who never sat a horse in anger, and among those on hand was a group of re-enactors wearing uniforms of the 2nd Dragoons in the 1850s. But for a few years more, the core will be soldiers who trained to fight from the saddle. They call one another Trooper, so that former noncoms and onetime generals can feel at ease as they retell old stories, many of them true. Merton Glover, a big, angular man of 69, retired years ago as a platoon sergeant. He trained as a horse soldier...
...happy. He can't believe he got the job! . . . I'm proud of him because, since then, Grenada has never attacked this country." R-rated films: "The truth is that children have no idea that it's sex. To children it looks like a fight. They see two people sweating, jumping, screaming . . . all of a sudden he's knocked out, and she's dancing. The kid is wondering, 'I never even saw the punch. How did this happen?' " And putting down a heckler: "All great men were rejected. You'll never have this problem...