Word: fought
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Canadian champion Jean Louis Lamarre fought through heavy rain and chilling 50-degree weather yesterday for a one-stroke lead in the opening round of the 54-hole PGA Assistants Golf championship in Brockton...
Similarly, Clarke strove to make his actors feel what it is like to be a killing machine. Although most of the troupe members were five or six at the height of the Vietnam war, Clarke has a clearer memory of the war because both his brothers fought...
...spotty; it has invariably sought to do the bare minimum it can to escape state environmental regulations. So rather than immediately getting into a new, knock-down, drag-out fight over technical minutiae. Harvard should ask for a moratorium on proceedings for the hearings. The communities which have successfully fought Harvard would certainly agree...
...debate on military spending had for years been fought in Pentagon memos, reports and meetings: the crucial difference this year was that the debate shifted to real battlefields, in Lebanon and the Falkland Islands. In both cases, the results were spectacular and unmistakeable. Israeli fliers in ultra-modern McDonnell Douglas F-15 planes shot down 40 Syrian planes in the first month of the invasion without losing a single jet. They also destroyed 19 surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a single battle, again with no Israeli losses...
...more narrow one than Israel's. Observers noted that the Falklands war was an old-style "slugfest," in which the British relied on sheer determination; but by contrast, Israel relied on its electronic weapons. Retired British Air Vice-Admiral Stewart Menaul summarized the difference between the conflicts: "We fought yesterday's war. The Israelis fought tomorrow...