Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially proud of the restraint he showed for months over the hostages, noting grimly that if he had bombed Tehran, he would probably have won the election. She is personally bitter that Reagan's deep budget cuts have eliminated the federal mental health programs that she fought...
...Bean shirt and gray slacks and ushered the Braniff executives into his living room. Flowers signed three bankruptcy petitions in all-for Braniff International, Braniff Airways and Braniff Realty-and was paid $600 on the spot for his services. Said Braniff's boss later as he fought back tears, his voice cracking: "What we had to do was very difficult, and I'm sorry...
...deep surprise of the past week was still how quickly and fiercely a dispute became a war. One could see it coming and still not believe it. A war that neither country wanted fought over a place that neither country needed? Even the taking of South Georgia did not bring the seriousness of the matter home: an Argentine submarine waiting for the assault like a turtle on its back; a farce-until the Belgrano. The lesson of the loss of life on that cruiser was not merely revulsion, but a recognition of the essential nature of the whole transaction...
...abyss; the abyss stares back, or simply grows boring. We revert to our customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality...
Penn State--which easily defended its title--was led by top-notch competitors like Patty Murnune, who loped to a hard-fought first place in the 1500 ahead of Harvard senior co-captain Mary Herlihy. Running neck-and-neck with Murnane throughout the race, Herlihy was barely beaten at the finish, despite running a personal best of 4:22. Freshman Mary-Jeanne Barrett also ran her best time ever, taking third with a time...