Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strictly maintained on a few of the most conspicuous issues. In 1966, the CAA-independent division disappeared completely. Both groups split down the middle, and a coalition of three independents and two CAA-endorsed councillors appointed a new city manager. Although personal feuds counted a great deal in this fight, the fact remained that the old political animosities had weakened enough to permit councillors from each group to join the new alliance. In public, they united in what amounted to a plea to shake the cobwebs from the city administration and "solve" the city's "problems...
...also entered into "extended conversations" about the Kodak-FIGHT dispute, particularly with FIGHT- founder Saul Alinsky, who was in Cambridge too. Moynihan knows Alinsky and calls him "an honorable man." From those conversations it seemed to him that it would be fruitful to reopen negotiations...
...that point I was able to inform Kodak that I thought that if they were able to re-enter negotiations with FIGHT, they would probably find FIGHT's conditions for doing so acceptable." He offered Kodak "not merely hope" but "reason to believe that something would happen if they reopened talks...
...open field 53 miles east of Saigon, the Americans were hit just before midnight by Viet Cong mortar and recoil-less-rifle fire. "The V.C. were loaded for bear," said U.S. Army Major David Doyle. "They were well outfitted and their equipment was new." But in a sharp, short fight, the cavalry lost only nine men, the enemy...
...second grade. The second oldest of seven children, Joe always wanted to be "an achiever," and in Fort Hamilton, an achiever had to be handy with his fists. A veteran of more than 100 rumbles, Joe was put on probation by a juvenile court after one particularly bloody street fight. "When I was in my first year, I failed out of Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn," he said in his address. "Not long after, I enrolled in Bay Ridge High School at night. I failed there also. I tried a third time at Bay Ridge, but could not last...