Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Harvard graduate who fought at Leyte has written perhaps the best novel yet about World...
...President had fought a single-handed fight without parallel in U.S. history. He did it all himself, after Democratic liberal and labor leaders had tried their best to depose him. He had plugged and pounded his way across the country. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry...
...crucial battle for Berlin was being fought in the hearts and minds of Berliners-but first & foremost in their bellies. The Russians were attempting to starve into submission 2½ million people in the city's Western sectors. They had been driven to employ a weapon which disgraced them before the civilized world. The Americans and the British were trying to feed the Berliners...
...practical benefit. But last week they had the satisfaction of hearing the Supreme Court read their pseudonyms into the annals of constitutional law. By a surprising majority of 7 to 2, the court ruled that Roe and Doe had won one of the nation's most fiercely fought legal battles. Thanks to the Texas waitress and the poverty-stricken Georgia housewife, every woman in the U.S. now has the same right to an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy as she has to any other minor surgery...
...lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...