Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army base, 20 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Smashing through the front gate, at least 50 invaders leaped from the vehicles and opened fire with Belgian FAL rifles, 40-mm grenade launchers and Soviet RPG-7 and Chinese RPG-2 rocket launchers. Startled troops, reinforced by some 500 police, fought back. Nearly 30 hours later, when the shooting finally ended, 28 invaders lay dead and 20 were under guard; nine soldiers and police were killed and 53 wounded...
...reason is that women feel especially vulnerable to violent crime -- often with good reason. Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist, was attacked several years ago at the University of Illinois Medical Center by two men, one carrying a gun, she fought off a rape but was severely beaten. Then, on a Saturday morning last year, she was attacked again as she approached her car parked outside a neighborhood church. "After that I said, 'That's it, no more.' I made the decision then and there that my protection was in my own hands." Kolen bought a gun and is going...
...World War II veteran who fought in the bloody Battle of the Bulge, Leyser was a friend and colleague of the famous Oxford theologian and writer C.S. Lewis...
...narrator, who describes himself as a retired terrorist (he fought to establish Israel), refers to a belief among Welsh nationalists that an old steel sword briefly on view in England was actually King Arthur's. The narrator points out that Arthur may not have existed, and that whatever sword he owned would surely have rusted to nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible...
...drop-out-or-die ultimatums are an aggressive attempt to rectify a long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...