Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event that another nation is threatened, we should help them with arms--and with men--but our goal should be to help them fight the war and not fight the war for them...
...there is a difference between what goes on in the dining hall and what most people spend most of their time with. Most of the time is spent on their courses and their academic work which are very competitive individual business. You go to lectures and then you fight for the grade. Apart from this work is the culture developed in the dining hall, where people can be sociable and just enjoy this learning and then there's the private social life of girls on weekends. Sort of three separate often very fragmented aspects of a person's life here...
...first marriage. As a 33-year-old artillery lieutenant, Yakov was taken prisoner near Smolensk in World War II's early days. Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov's Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin's second marriage, remembers that her brother Vasily (who died in a drunken auto accident in 1962) brought home handbills bearing a picture of Yakov that the Germans had dropped over Moscow to prove that they had taken Stalin...
...cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight for civil rights has lost its romance," he wrote. "There is nothing funny about it any more...
...first Republican Governor of this century and an aspirant to the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, is engaged in a political struggle with the Democratic-controlled legislature. The N.E.A. is locked in combat with the American Federation of Teachers for the loyalty of the nation's restive teachers. Its fight is well-organized and well-financed. Association officers traveled by hydrofoil to a meeting in Miami's Marine Stadium; a Lear Jet was chartered for two days for more than...