Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shootout with the Libyans [Aug. 31] should remind us that the "shores of Tripoli" are already memorialized in the Marine Corps Hymn, dating from an earlier period when the U.S. fought to keep open the waters of the Mediterranean. With Reagan as President, the message goes out: "America is back!" It will be heard and understood both by our friends and by potential enemies...
...getting tagged by a Hearns right hand. For his part, the Hit Man didn't seem to fear Leonard at all until he took a beating in the sixth and seventh. After that he was a different fighter. He looked like Muhammed Ali looked each time he fought Kenny Norton. You could almost hear him thinking, "Can't let this guy close. Can't let him near me. Just four more rounds...
...related his reunion in China with an older brother who had been in this country for 40 years. Yao told his brother he had been to Korea, that he had fought in the war for China. His brother responded that he too had been to Korea, but he had fought in an American uniform. "We had a lot to talk about," Yao told the suddenly hushed audience...
...NOMATEP coalition, which claims to represent thousands of local residents and over 100 organizations, has fought construction of the plant from the beginning. And many of its members, like Brookline resident Charlotte Ploss, promise a continuing fight, despite MATEP's recent successes. "We can either stay and fight, or move. And I'm not moving," Ploss says...
...Mujahedin flinch. On the day of the Raja'i and Bahonar funerals, Mujahedin gunmen assassinated two more ranking Khomeini supporters. One was Hojjatoleslam Seyed Nasser Banijamal, director of internal affairs at Tehran's Court for Combatting Sin. Three days later, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards fought an eight-hour gun battle with Mujahedin in Tehran's streets. According to the government's own reports, more than 100 similar shootouts with Mujahedin and other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border...