Word: fighting
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Once Harvard was fighting for sole possession of first place, then it was fighting for a tie with Dartmouth, now it must fight off Brown and Yale (13-10, 8-4 Ivy) to maintain second place in the league standings...
...wily Welles may have anticipated future tampering with his work. His 1939 contract with RKO Pictures stipulated that he would retain full control over the film, specifically citing its black-and-white photography. Last week the Turner Entertainment Co. gave up a possible court fight and abandoned its colorization plan. For Welles, who died in 1985, it was a victory from the grave...
This was the extraordinary plight of Salman Rushdie, 41, whose fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, has precipitated what some Islamic experts regard as the most incendiary literary fight in the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Last week the controversy spread from the dusty streets of Pakistan to the offices of European publishers and to the shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel...
...going to fight like the Spartans used to," said Fish, who is coaching his last dual match. "We're either going to come home carrying our shields or be on top of them...
...going to be a pit-bull fight," Harvard Assistant Coach John Anz said. "Hopefully, we will come out a little less bloody. There's not going to be a quick knockout. It's going to be a split decision. It's a fight to the death, there is no in-between...