Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little good for a presidential spokesman to protest that "we didn't try to pick a fight" or for senior U.S. officials to minimize the possibility that the U.S. would take out the weapons plant by force. Arab states lined up in the United Nations to denounce America's "brutal aggression." In the harshest language the Soviet Union has used toward the U.S. in two years, the Kremlin labeled the American action "state terrorism...
...turned away from the approaching aircraft, a clear signal that the American pilots were not looking for a fight. To the surprise of the U.S. crews, the Libyan planes shifted abruptly ("jinked," in pilot jargon) to get back on a nose-to-nose lineup with the Americans. The distance between the two pairs of jets was closing at roughly 1,000 m.p.h...
...love to have enemies. I fight my enemies. I like beating my enemies to the ground...
Silence, however, finally proved untenable. In 1945, with Tokyo aflame, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to rubble, and military officers still eager to fight, the Emperor insisted on announcing his country's surrender. As he spoke, he publicly betrayed emotion for almost the only time in his life: his voice broke...
Cardona's legal aid attorney, Jose Sanchez, said yesterday that his client will fight the accusations...