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Word: fighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this small battle behind the Cadet net, Army emerged victorious. Bourbeau wound up with a bloodstained jersey and later admitted that he and C.J. Young, Harvard's other participant in the fight, were " a little outmanned...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Armed Affair | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard the cost of the little skirmish wasminimal--a slightly higher laundry bill because ofBourbeau's jersey. For Army--a team struggling toearn respectability in the ECAC after joining theleague this year--the fight may have cost it thegame. And maybe a playoff spot

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Armed Affair | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

After violence disrupted the first march, 20,000 civil-rights supporters mounted a second one. The press hailed the march, calling it a demonstration of a renewed commitment to the fight against racism. But while the Klan's actions should not go unopposed, their actions must be kept in proper perspective...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The March of Racism: The Forsyth Saga | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights Commission, to stack the courts with right-wingers, its support for South Africa's apartheid government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism On The Rise | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...breeds confusion and depression. He feels himself slipping but struggles to remember what he once had and to figure out how to get it back. He rarely drinks alcohol and keeps his light brown corduroy pants and red- checked shirt meticulously clean. Underneath, he wears two other shirts to fight off the cold, and he sleeps with his large hands buried deep within his coat pockets amid old sandwiches and doughnuts from the soup kitchens and garbage cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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