Word: fought
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...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...
...mayor can end up powerless. In his first week on the job, Harold Washington lost control of the Chicago city council to a group of rebellious white council members who proceeded to divvy up key committee chairmanships and leave the mayor's supporters out in the cold. Washington fought the councilmen in court but lost. He still controls the city purse strings and can veto any action dealing with capital expenditures, but for the time being he is unable to put through any programs...
White's abrupt exit gladdened the hearts of ten already announced candidates. Inevitably, however, the battle for succession will be fought under the long shadow of King Kevin...
...Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly federated Libya. A strict Muslim who claimed descent from Muhammad, Idris ruled with benign autocracy, had no heirs (to his dismay) and became increasingly out of touch as the oil discoveries...
...which he played the adopted homosexual son of a former drag queen. Slightly built (5 ft. 8 in.), Broderick looks no more than 17. Fierstein, who was the star as well as the author, kept telling him to hurry his lines. Broderick resisted, and the two yelled and fought. "Harvey used to push me against the wall - he's strong as a bull - but it freed me up a lot as an actor to play against him. He has a nice freedom on stage." Says Fierstein: "You couldn't get him to rush a line...