Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the Murray-Fairless fight appeared to be less a matter of principle than one of various prides & prejudices. Fairless objected to Government fact-finding boards; moreover, he was outraged by Murray's settle-or-I-shoot tactics. Murray had sounded his war cry so furiously that now he could not retreat an inch. Nor did Murray want to face the slightest possibility of another labor leader (i.e., John Lewis or Walter Reuther) getting a better settlement than he could...
...three years, the French have been fighting a weary, tenacious jungle war against the Communists in Indo-China. To save France's richest prewar colony (and a potentially important anti-Communist base in Southeast Asia), the French government has thrown a third of its small, painstakingly rebuilt army into the fight; so far, it has been unable to achieve anything like a decisive victory over Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh. Last week it looked as if the French chances of licking Ho had improved...
What Dulles said was: Unless the trend to "statism" is checked, "Our children and grandchildren [will have to fight] their way back, a bloody way against the all-powerful state ... I don't believe that we need to have a violent revolution, certainly not today. The people still have it in their power peacefully to check [statism...
...Page got the victory yesterday, but the Dodgers didn't give up without a fight. Behind 4 to 1 in the ninth, Luis Olmo and Roy Campanella homered off Page's offerings. But the third successive time, one team came out one run too short...
...When enough atomic bombs to destroy an opponent's major cities have been accumulated by both sides, the degree of dispersal of industry and population is the standard of a nation's ability to continue to fight," Meyer said...