Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of Boston-area all-star ruggers, led by four Harvard players, squeaked by the Beacon Hill Rugby Club, current New England Club Champions, 12-10 in a hard-fought match on Sunday...
...black soldiers who followed their young colonel fought fiercely, hand to hand, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, driven back, slaughtered. Next morning, the dead and wounded were strewn over three-quarters of a mile. The Confederates stripped Shaw's body and threw it into a mass grave. When the Union forces finally captured Fort Wagner, the Army wanted to retrieve Shaw's body, but his family objected. They wanted him to remain with...
...grand moment in 1897 when the memorial stood unveiled. No fewer than 65 veterans who had fought with Shaw stood at attention. "Many of them were bent and crippled, many with white heads, some with bouquets," wrote Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...
...first inkling that the new Administration might be considering a change came March 3 in an interview between Reagan and Walter Cronkite. South Africa was a friendly power, Reagan said, and the U.S. could scarcely abandon a country that has "stood behind us in every war we ever fought." Two weeks ago, Reagan officials were toying with the idea of inviting Prime Minister P.W. Botha to Washington after his expected victory in national elections later this month. The Administration has asked Congress to repeal the 1976 Clark amendment, which bars covert U.S. aid to rebel guerrillas in Angola...
...they have nothing to be ashamed of. They have nothing to be ashamed of because Jimmy Black and Al Wood and Sam Perkins and the rest of them scrambled and fought and played one hell of a basketball game. On another night, Carolina's shots would have fallen. On another night, Indiana's ballhandling wouldn't have been quite so impeccable, Carolina's defense quite so porous. On another night, the momentum would have belonged to Carolina, and Carolina would have beaten Indiana. On another night, Carolina did beat Indiana, by nine points, but that was in December, that wasn...