Word: fights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the remains for about 40 years, immediately announced he was the owner of most of them. Thereupon the chairman of Stanford's anthropology department, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., had the locks changed on the collection. The wrangle grew wider as scientists contemplated the loss of the bones, some...
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...
Most of the nominees were rejected on the grounds that they lacked qualifications. Last week Ryzhkov, who had vowed to fight for his nominees, thought better of it. "I could not see any substantial proof that would enable me to defend them," he admitted. "They simply did not meet demands in one area or another...
...today, fight change which is so slow and insidious that it renders slogan-writing nearly impossible. What songs do we sing, what catch phrase tops our letters...
...affirmative action rulings provoked little more than quiet outrage from some of the country's liberal legislators and editorial pages. The fight has been left in the hands of the pro-choice forces...