Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Millions of people are joining the fight against nuclear weapons. I hope that after we have received the peace prize, even greater will stand up," Myrdal said when she won the award...
What began as an especially malicious round of the "Thayer sucks, Holworthy bites" war of verbs had escalated into a classwide snowball fight of avalanche proportions. Yet the sight of hundreds of impassioned first-year Harvardians clashing and writhing about the snow-packed ground with reckless abandon, was not just an example of the old run-of-the-mill Veritas spirit. No, this was a rare attack of the Wild Weather Syndrome--the third to hit the Yard this year...
...week's end Gaddafi headed into the gulf aboard a missile-carrying patrol boat, boasting that he would sail to "the line of death, where we will stand and fight." Despite such tough talk, Gaddafi has actually been scrambling to avoid a confrontation. His intermediaries last week offered Italy a secret pledge not to harbor terrorists. (It was rejected; Italy wants a public promise.) "Our impression is that Gaddafi is scared," said an Italian official. The pressure on the Libyan dictator can only increase as U.S. forces approach--and probably cross--his unenforceable boundary...
...order to open negotiations with the guerrillas. She would also offer a pardon to any political prisoner willing to renounce the use of force. Aquino believes that the insurgency will lose much of its momentum once Marcos leaves office. But she insists that she will use force to fight any group that seeks to overthrow a genuinely democratic government or "destroy our cultural heritage, including our belief in God." Early in her campaign Aquino gave Marcos a target of opportunity when she said that she would offer Communists who eschewed the use of force a place in her government. Later...
...fight attack helicopters with humanitarian aid." With that observation to a group of influential Republican Senators last week, President Reagan signaled his determination to renew the battle over U.S. military aid for the contra forces fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Although Congress has prohibited such aid since 1984, Reagan plans to request as much as $100 million to support what he frequently refers to as "freedom fighters" in Nicaragua. At least $60 million would be in military aid, the rest in humanitarian supplies. The decision to carry the fight to Capitol Hill once more stemmed from...