Word: fought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disillusioned with the growing Soviet and Cuban influence in Nicaragua. Within months the fortunes of ARDE had reached such a low point that his financially strapped army moved into Costa Rican refugee camps. Critics joked that the "zero" in his title stood for the number of battles he had fought. After taking San Juan del Norte, the bearded commander could finally add some bite to his bluster. As Pastora told TIME, "San Juan del Norte means more than a beachhead to us. It represents the weapons that will now come to us because we have convinced many democratic governments that...
Jessie, a New York Jew who fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...
Yesterday Warren and about 100 other law students gathered around a projection TV in Harkness Commons to watch him triumph in his sixth and final game. The students drank champagne and cheered Warren as he fought it out with competitors Ellie and Mike on the big screen...
...authors of this letter place the words "Black Jewish relations" in quotation marks, and claim that no such relations exists or ever did exists. I wonder if they would have made such a claim in the 1960s when American Jews and Blacks marched and fought together during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement. The letter serves only to maintain the present painful state of relations between the two groups. It precludes the possibility of any dialogue until American Jews begin vocally attacking Israel's policies in South Africa. This statement only shows how the Arab Oil States' propaganda...
...FIERCEST WAR in New York right now is not being fought over budgets, aid packages and votes, but rather over books. Mayor Edward I Koch has struck the first blow with Mayor, which has rocketed to number one on the New York Times list thanks to free publicity and some heavy leg work that took the shamelessly self-promoting Koch up and down the East Cast and to Europe. Koch's book will soon be joined by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's, who will soon provide the other side of his victory over Koch in the bitterly gubernatorial race...