Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have on our hands the making of a civil war, being fought with taxes instead of muskets. And this time, the North (including the Midwest) is going to lose...
...history. Fourth of July celebrations were bravely held behind barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found they had lost everything...
After fasting for 62 days, Tom McElwee, 23, died last weekend, touching off widespread rioting in Belfast that killed two persons. The threat of violence is always present, yet the real battle between the British authorities and the Irish Republican Army is being fought these days not in the streets of Northern Ireland, but in a sprawling, gray brick prison near Belfast known as the Maze. There, one after another, I.R.A. members are starving themselves to death for the right, technically, to get the special handling accorded political prisoners instead of being treated as common criminals...
...1940s, when penicillin came into wide use, it was seen as the miracle drug to save the world from pneumococcal pneumonia, an infection that then had a mortality rate as high as 85%. But as more and more antibiotics came into use, nature fought back, creating more resistant bacteria. When first used, penicillin was nearly 100% effective against the most prevalent Staphylococci aureus that spread hospital-related infection among patients. Today the drug is far less effective. Both tetracycline and penicillin, once used to cure gonorrhea, now have a failure rate of more than 20% against certain strains. For years...
...more equipment than many bar bands, but its members claim they have no aspirations other than "to play outside in the warm weather and entertain the people." Several contributors to the smooth Ammonia sound are professional musicians, and one notes that the group has potential "because we've already fought it out and slugged each other around, so we know how to survive." For now though, they're willing to run their cords all over Brattle St. and play vigorous two-hour sets for the $30 or $40 left in a guitar case, which they split six ways...