Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four players, Erica Smith and captain Maria Pe, out of action with injuries, the net-women got off to a strong start by winning four of the six singles matches. But Harvard's lack of early season practice showed up in doubles play, as the team needed a hard-fought victory from Erica Schulman and Tracy Kunichika in the number-two slot to secure...
...town some 20 miles to the west where striking union loyalists shot 19 would-be strikebreakers to death in the "Herrin Massacre" of 1922. Muddy Bottoms is an area along the Muddy River a few miles to the north of Herrin, where U.M.W. stalwarts loyal to John L. Lewis fought off supporters of a rival union with clubs, shovels and shotguns in the early 1930s. The miner adds: "Them that sets up scab here is gonna set up in blood and ashes...
...nearby West Frankfort. "Kerr-McGee will hire miners for Galatia out of state, where union tradition isn't strong, and pay better than union scale, scrimping on safety for their profit. With no union, anyone who complains about safety will get fired. I hate to see everything we fought for here go down the tubes. John L. Lewis would roll over in his grave...
...people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom," said Reagan, turning to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "Let us remember that whether we be Christian or Jew or Muslim, we are all children of Abraham, all children of the same God." But now, Reagan warned, "forces of aggression, lawlessness and tyranny . . . seek to undo the work of generations of our people, to put out a light that we've been tending for the past 6,000 years." More personally, the President said to a visibly...
...most states inclined to buck the antiregulation trend. In Texas, for example, consumerists could hardly get committee hearings this year for their bills, and fought a rear-guard action to prevent weakening of existing laws. The budget signed into law this summer by Massachusetts Governor Edward King eliminates that state's consumer council...