Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was some good in all these inequities, Darst says. "In a very rough way, Radcliffe prepared you for the real world because you learned how to fight," she says...
...local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country fails to meet her standards, she puts up a fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself...
Though his travels have taken him to Moscow, Paris and Peking, there is one less celebrated spot with a special meaning for Henry Kissinger: Spartanburg, S.C. It was there in 1943 that the former Secretary of State became a naturalized U.S. citizen after entering the Army to fight against Germany, from which he had fled five years earlier. Kissinger, 62, was back in Spartanburg last week to tell the graduating class at the University of South Carolina that his naturalization was "the greatest privilege of my life." He also took to task some of his former colleagues at Harvard, where...
...competitive airline industry, however, highflyers often suddenly crash to the ground. United Chairman Richard Ferris insists that his airline ; cannot afford to fly without a two-tier wage policy. Although pilots have not traditionally staged long walkouts, both sides last week seemed to be digging in for a tough fight...
Ever since Congress cut off contra funding in May 1984, conservative groups in the U.S. have been soliciting money and supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance...