Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main body of Rossiaud's work, however, centers on why prostitution was allowed to flourish in a time when contemporary theologians like Aquinas and Saignet fought against "Nature" and condemned fornication, chastity and masturbation as evil. He attempts to question whether the impetus was from within the town--men in the towns--or whether it was from without--salesmen and other wanderers who happened to be in town for a few days. And in the process he is able to maintain a light writing style that, while informative and academic, is not too ponderous to be enjoyed...
...urged the swaying, cheering crowd to remember work still to be done and future battles to be fought, such as the 1989 mayoral races in New York and other strategic cities, the census in 1990 which will determine allocation for the next decade and the drawing of district lines in 1991 which will be in effect through the year...
...Navy is just not used to operating in the half-war, half-peace atmosphere of the gulf, where harmless passengers and deadly enemies all whizz through the same cramped airspace. The Aegis system is designed for the open seas, where Pentagon planners mistakenly thought that wars would be fought...
...real problem on this enigmatic ball club, it seems to me, is the glaring lack of leadership. This was never more apparent than during June, when the Red Sox resembled Family Feud or The People's Court. On one well-publicized bus ride, Wade Boggs fought Dwight Evans, Evans fought Rick Cerone, and Manager John McNamara quietly slipped off the bus during the middle of these episodes and headed into the team's hotel. Later that night, Oil Can Boyd went on a rampage through the halls of the hotel. It seemed that everyone (even the players' wives...
...then again, Tony "Two-Ton" Tubbs was no Michelangelo's David either. When Tubbs fought Tyson in Japan a few moths ago, it looked like he had one too many pound of sushi and washed it down with a keg of Sapporo. But you couldn't remind Tony about his weight problem. He thought he could beat the champ...