Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the best game we've had all year," fullback Frank RiCapito said at halftime. "It has been the hardest fought, but not the best played...
...portent of battles to be fought in the coming years, the Senate voted 42 to 38 to add an antibusing measure to a $9.8 billion appropriation bill for the Justice Department and other agencies. Already passed by the House, the rider would prevent the Justice Department from asking federal judges to use busing as one means of achieving a better racial balance in public schools. The coalition backing the antibusing move was led by Helms. Asked he: "How long are we going to allow a federal bureaucracy in the Justice Department to torment the little children of America...
...Florida has a special problem. In Miami overall crime jumped 21% during the first half of 1980 over 1979 figures; the murder rate alone soared 70%, from 134 in all of 1979 to 201 so far this year. Says Miami Beach Commissioner Alex Daoud: "An absolute war is being fought in our streets at night...
...Arrigo fought back loudly and struck a nerve. Carey humbly said, "I regret if my position as Governor has been a burden to my neighbors"-and ordered the state to leave D'Arrigo's property alone. Back in Manhattan, Carey presumably lifted his spirits by planning to move himself-and two state police guards -into a new $500,000 duplex apartment on Park Avenue, more spacious than his current digs in a midtown hotel...
...death as sleep, and they saw it as an eternal feast, an all-night bash. In short, the ancients would have recognized the code of a Gordon Liddy. But what are most of us to make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals fought in the middle of their troops, and when it was almost reasonable for a leader, say Alexander, to pluck a spear from his lung so that he could seize more land than he could possibly govern...