Word: fights
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While these arrangements progressed, anti busing forces insisted that their fight had barely begun. Groups such as the South Boston Information Center and Massachusetts Citizens Against Forced Busing, sprang up throughout the city, apparently creating organizations and resources solely out of the intensity of their emotions. State Senator and current mayoral candidate Joseph Timilty (D-Mattapan) declared himself a "bitter foe" of busing, and School Committee Chairman John Kerrigan declared, "I'm opposed to desegration and I'm going to fight it in the Legislature and in the Courts...
...Friday of last week, police had taken five white suspects in the stoning into custody, and White pointed to the arrests as evidence of his determination to fight racial violence in his city. The arrests came at a bad moment for White, campaigning hard in the white neighborhoods that are Timilty's strongholds. White, who has always carried Roxbury and the South End, must also fight his image as a do nothing mayor for the black community of Boston. White, and every other candidate for office this election, naturally rushed to affirm his concern for the schoolchildren, after Headmaster Winegar...
...their 18th century cousins in England, Daniel Defoe would say "there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse." In New England, in order to prevent such a mistake, one of the most eminent citizens of the Colony, The Honorable Paul Dudley (A.B. 1690), Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Overseer of Harvard College, Fellow of the Royal Society, left to the President and Fellows of the college a bequest of 133 pounds, 6 shillings, and 8 pence...
Most alumni said the book and movie accurately portray the insecurity of the students and their eagerness to fight in the war. "This was a very popular war," Irvin M. Horowitz '45 said yesterday. "There was virtually no anti-war feeling on campus," he added...
...They played well--very well," Springfield coach Dottie Potter Zenaty said. "We have to be considered near the top of the teams in this area, and Harvard sure put up a fight...