Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, in order to end a takeover fight, Phillips Petroleum agreed to buy the 8.9 million shares that Pickens and his partners held in the company. That stands to earn the group an $89 million profit, and started speculation about Pickens' next target. "I think he is going to do the same thing again, and sooner rather than later," says Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for Schneider, Bernet & Hickman, a Dallas securities firm. Pickens himself remains tight-lipped: "We'll look at anything that makes sense," he says. "And that's the end of that conversation...
...just like the Jets and the Sharks," is how Dianne M. Paulus '88, referring to the opposing gangs in the play/movie "West Side Story", described the snowball fight in Harvard Yard late Monday night. The fight attracted about 200 freshmen and lasted about two hours. one participant said...
...young woman of Latin descent--she was extremely short and wore a headband and some kind of peasant dress--nudged my arm, looked up at me, and said, "We're Maoist utopians and we're prepared to fight to the death." I smiled politely...
...eventually reached the wreckage, they found that the ninth car of the train had been demolished by the blast; at least 15 people were found dead and 80 were seriously injured. It was Italy's bloodiest terrorist act since the authorities began to gain the upper hand in the fight against political extremists two years...
...creators, apologists, confessors and prisoners. To some degree these are arbitrary distinctions; the 19th century British painter Benjamin Haydon recorded his financial and artistic woes in 26 confidential volumes. As one of his last exhibitions fails, he laments, "They rush by thousands to see (Tom) Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint . . . They see my bills, my boards & don't read them." Months later he quotes King Lear, "Stretch me no longer on this tough World," and commits suicide. Is he a creator, a prisoner or merely, as Mallon has it, an apologist...