Word: fought
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There's an old Canadian adage that goes: if you don't put the puck in the net, you just can't win. The Harvard women's hockey team learned this lesson the hard way last night, dropping a 2-0 decision to Colby in a hard-fought, well-played game at Bright Center...
...wars, it is said, are fought for the benefit of future generations. This is a story of how those generations are responding. The responses vary, as you would expect. The five war zones represented here are quite different from one another, and the children in each place have their differences as well. Nor do those within a single war zone necessarily react in the same ways to the terrors around them. What all these children do have in common is a fierce will to survive?a will that sometimes takes the form of revenge, and at other times...
...technically they are not children of war?not of war as it is fought in Belfast, Nahariya, Ramallah, Beirut, or in the jungles outside Phnom-Penh. There are no gun battles or street riots in Viet Nam any more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which...
When both gave out, they used their fishing nets, and that was when the trouble started. A few men, "taking advantage of the others," fished for themselves at night. The boatmaster fought with them. Four people "fell" overboard. Seven remained...
...featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting on the Senator, showing the media's role change from Joseph McCarthy's mouthpiece to that of a dramatic image-maker which cast McCarthy as a villainous "bully" with "heavy dark brows" or as a heroic cow-boy who fought "smear gangs" and "parlor pinks," the book vividly illustrates McCarthy's ride on the tracks of America's media, lying and venomously spewing forth accusations...