Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other brother) toiled in labor camps in the countryside, fulfilling Pol Pot's (the Khmer Rouge leader's) vision of a peasant farming nation. The Khmer Rouge were hostile and brutal against the people who had lived comfortably in the cities while they had struggled and fought in the jungles for a new Cambodia...
...from Beirut suggested that the fighting in Lebanon's Chouf Mountains was just about over, thereby reducing the threat to the lives of the 1,200 U.S. Marines dug in around Beirut International Airport. But the ground combat and the artillery fire persisted as the fledgling Lebanese Army fought Syrian-backed Druze forces for control of the strategic hill town of Suq al Gharb. The Marines, after savoring a brief lull in artillery fire directed at the airport, were forced back into their bunkers when mortar rounds began falling near them. And as they hunkered down, a political battle...
...real problem is real estate. When the College grew in the '60s, it gobbled up neighborhoods and drove up the price of housing for everyone. There is not enough Cambridge for everyone who wants it. That was the war which the city should have fought. Now we can only skirmish over lots and individual buildings...
...battle over DNA research taught Harvard a number of lessons. Even science has its obligation to deal openly with the public. I think all of us are better off for having fought that one out. And now that the dust has settled. I like to think that I can include Mathew Meselson and Walter Gilbert on my list of friends. I suspect that they feel the same...
...hockey team came within a game of winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship. Harvard's 5-3 NCAA semifinal triumph over Minnesota capped a post-season in which the icemen downed RPI, New Hampshire and Providence to win the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship, then fought off Michigan State to earn a berth in the NCAA Final Four. It was the first time Harvard ever made it to the final round. Senior defenseman Mark Fusco earned the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given annually to the nation's best college hockey player...