Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic cold and 30-m.p.h. winds left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose...
...taste, there is no dispute: his parents are always right. Questions concerning money, love, sex, religion and politics are taboo. The child is never allowed to see that the world is not perfect. Yet his life is colored by a pervasive sadness: "We did nothing and said nothing and fought for nothing and had no opinions and spent our time being amused by other people who were ridiculous enough to do, say, or think something...
...natural powers. He could not make ice storms, or freeze the water until it froze the blood. But he could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water pitted himself against an implacable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with charity; and he held it to a standoff. He was the best we can do. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...must involve ourselves more actively with it. If the system of defense and the opinions of war in this country can be changed it is Harvard students and those like us who can bring these changes about. Until we do this the chance of dirty little wars fought by the lower classes remains alive, as does the confusion of militarism with patriotism and all the many other misconceptions of ideology which have arisen from the separation of young, perceptive, free-thinking minds from the military...
Michael Dukakis, who was never a friend to public higher education in this state, who opposed pay raises for teachers, who fought construction of state medical school, thinks everything is fine. His comment has been that he's one parent who is very satisfied with public education in this state...