Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp chairs lined up around it and burned the sheet music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...
...former Ham & Eggs organizer, who sometimes kneels in public to show his followers how he prays for them, was already making five radio speeches a week over 22 stations, setting up a vast precinct system to "protect the old folks against future dangers." California faced the biggest political fight in years...
...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
...Robert Ryan plays a courageous pug at the brutal end of a small-time fight career (TIME, April...
...Workingmen's Parties. When he spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and could surely, speedily and permanently be cured by the use of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND." The opposition had nothing to match this...