Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore, being sound of mind, wind, and limb, having at least as much sense as an animal, do hereby declare war on my enemies, and ... I will fight them every step of the way until we achieve the equality as American citizens which is guaranteed by our Constitution...
...unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
...amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...
...nine had been appointed from among the 63 delegates to the first meeting, in Chichester, England, of the World Council of Churches' central committee. Five of the nine were front-line veterans of the fight against totalitarianism. Pastor Martin Niemöller had spent eight years in a Nazi concentration camp; Norway's Bishop Arne Fjellbu was a leader in his country's wartime underground; Dr. Hendrick Kraemer was a member of the Dutch resistance movement; Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern...
...tough little film about a washed-up small-timer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...