Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lieder, and often his wife Pauline would listen. Sometimes Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touch ing sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"-and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad-needless to say, Pauline always started these fights . . . He said to me when I departed: "You have seen a lot which you will find strange in this house. But believe me, all the praises in the world are not so refreshing as my wife's outbreaks of temperament...
each generation of young men had to have its war. In the past few generations, the character of wars has changed-both the wars that were fought and now the one that nobody has dared to begin. There was World War I, the war of the trenches; the futility and waste of human life, the vast pointlessness of the exercise, led much of civilized opinion to the conclusion that warfare had become madness...
...latest round of fighting started in early September, when the Israeli army abruptly withdrew its forces to the southern banks of the Awali River, some 17 miles south of Beirut. As the Israelis pulled out of the Chouf Mountains, their positions were quickly occupied and fought over by the Druze militiamen and their enemies, the Christian Phalange militiamen. Reinforced with arms and ammunition from Syria, the Druze promptly trounced the Phalangists and appeared to threaten the Lebanese Army's hold on its own capital. The Druze have enjoyed the support of as many as 2,000 Palestinian guerrillas, some from...
...works on Tuesdays." Bertrand admitted his error in losing the start: "It was a mistake on my part. One mistake is all it takes." Owner Bond, crushed by the defeat and with his back to a 3-1 wall, reminded a press conference of the valiant way Australian troops fought at Gallipoli in World War I (and lost...
...while the masses anxiously await a strong call for the new dream. The March on Washington was only one such sign that masses are listening. Recently a community leader, once kicked off a bus for refusing to sit in the back, told me at a neighborhood meeting. "We've fought too long, we've lost too much blood to give up now." Now, it is Jackson's move, but after that we on the local level must organize to build for the next leader--Black. Latino, or white--to take control of a movement faithful to the ideals...