Word: fought
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...what Lee called the "most exciting and best wrestled match of the competition," freshman Dan Medalie lost a hard-fought match to Mass Maritime's Barry Depersis, 11-10. "Medalie is going to have quite a future if he keeps up like this," Lee said...
...BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even as it was being fought...
When the 1982 budget for HHS was slashed by more than $3 billion, Good Soldier Schweiker hardly raised a yelp. But he has not yet come forward with proposals for less expensive ways to deliver the social services he once fought for as a Senator, or to contain health-care costs through greater competition and coordination. Moreover, he has joined the fight against programs like family planning, which the Administration opposed primarily on ideological, rather than budgetary grounds...
...incident offered a fascinating glimpse into the world of the modern mercenary. The men who bungled the Seychelles coup are the new breed of Hoare's legendary Wild Geese*: would-be soldiers of fortune, usually of right-wing persuasion, who fought for pay in Mozambique or Angola and staged coup attempts in the Camores or Dominica. Most of those involved in the Seychelles operation probably did not know who backed the job. They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were...
Gentleness and cruelty get mixed up easily in boxing. Frazier has always been a primitive, without a great deal of art, just a great deal of courage. He fought, as they say, with his face. But he is not insensitive to all pain, only to physical pain...