Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt. Far more uncertain has been the fate of the show itself. From the start, Elmer Bernstein's dial-tone melodies and Don Black's laundry-list lyrics overwhelmed every scene. Lame gags and pyrotechnical special effects?a barrage of chemicals, dry ice, floating props and eccentric lighting?fought the tiny wisp of plot. During one inauspicious performance, Henning's wife Debby, who plays a variety of roles, including Water, one of the four elements, found herself on the wrong side of a fountain and emerged sopping...
...last week, and reaching an agreement that both reduced the SS-20s and allowed the U.S. to introduce cruise missiles was well worth the sacrifice of the Pershing IIs. However, Perle, who was once Nitze's protégé and ally, vehemently opposed the plan. At Perle's urging, Weinberger fought the compromise and got the President to decide that the Pershing IIs could not be sacrificed after all. The Kremlin, too, rejected the Nitze-Kvitsinsky deal probably because it calculated it could do better by holding out for no American missiles...
...reclusive multimillionaire who preferred to work all night. A man terrified of germs who fought his growing array of ailments with a variety of drugs and massive vitamin injections. A brilliant and dominating figure who built an empire and who was both revered and feared. And now, to make the comparison more compelling still, the question of his fate. Even longtime intimates have not seen him in more than two years. They do not know whether he is living in seclusion by his own choice, or whether he is mentally incompetent and a captive of former underlings. Some...
...decision marked a sharp turn in White House thinking. Though Reagan had always insisted that military spending must be exempt from budgetary restraints, he is now proposing a reduction for the sole purpose of shrinking the deficit. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who fought against the cuts and lost, made that reasoning explicit. Ashen-faced and biting off his words, Weinberger declared, "If it were not for the deficit, we would not have any suggestion that we not carry out the full program...
...This was the same shooting I was reading about. The report I was reading said the people were searching for food and lived in Nicaragua. They had gone from Waspán [a town on the river] to Bilwaskarma in their canoes. I couldn't understand this. I fought against the barbarities Somoza committed against the Nicaraguan people. But as the revolutionary process increased, the level of class hatred increased. Among the officers, an attitude was created that one should kill rather than forgive...