Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents in San Agustin del Sur took over the Francisco Fajardo Highway, the city's main artery, Monday afternoon. They fought a battle with police that began with rocks and tear gas and ended with gunfire from both sides...
Taking advantage of a poor Maroon defense, Harvard extended its lead to 14-5 but had difficulty putting the game away. As Springfield fought back to 14-8, Gurdal must have had haunting visions of the MIT match, when the Crimson was a point away from winning several games but couldn't stop the Engineers. The ball changed hands six times before the Crimson earned its first victory...
...amazing team weekend even though we lost," Dragomirescu said. "We fought to the last point. We played good tennis and we lost...
...dramatic increase of crack-contaminated infants, she did not wait for someone else to show the way. "There was a void in the system," she explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from officials who knew and respected her work. She named her program for Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned South African black leader Nelson Mandela...
...prepare for war, not train people for civilian jobs, and they advise them to be skeptical about recruiters' promises. Peace groups are especially outraged at the military's targeted appeal to racial minorities, who make up 18% of the armed services. In New York City peace activists have fought proposals to introduce Junior ROTC into predominantly nonwhite schools. "The message we are giving kids is there is no place for you in mainstream society," says Linda Farrell, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan. "The only place is the military, where you can be cannon fodder...