Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an uphill fight, but we are making progress. There are now eight of us sponsoring the disclosure bill, and onetime opponents like Senators Morton and Cotton have publicly announced their support of such a requirement...
...week's visit, before he addressed Congress, Westmoreland spent three hours briefing the President and his top advisers on the war. He answered questions on enemy supplies and strategy, the pacification program and the tense situation along the DMZ, where 36 North Vietnamese battalions were poised for a fight. Undoubtedly, the question of U.S. manpower was also raised, and whether to increase it from the 475,000-man level now projected for year's end. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, whose inside information on the war has proved highly accurate in the past, predicts...
...began legal proceedings that could result in a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. A less predictable magistrate was the World Boxing Association, which announced within hours that Clay was being stripped of the championship and that it was scheduling a world tournament to decide who should fight for his title...
...aides shortly before leaving for Europe. "One holds out his arm and says, 'Spit over it.' The one boy spits and the other moves his arm, and of course the boy misses and spits on the arm, and then the first one gets mad and wants to fight. Well, De Gaulle is like the boy daring the other one to spit over his arm. But I'm not going to do it. I'm just going to step back." He suggested that De Gaulle come to the U.S. for a visit, but did not press...
...there, in the sixth game, it ended. The Wilt Chamberlain of the 1966-67 season is a complete ballplayer-no longer concentrating on scores for the record book, instead setting up plays for teammates, scrambling downcourt to fight for rebounds and break up Warrior attack patterns. In the first five games, Wilt had scored only 82 points, but he had contributed 37 assists and picked off 148 rebounds. In the final game, he scored 24, with four assists and 23 rebounds. At the very last, his defensive play was the difference. Behind by only a point with 15 seconds...