Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number-two doubles, deLone and Dragomirescu lost the first set, 7-6, but the duo fought back to capture 6-2, 6-1 sets to win the match...
Ronald Reagan last week vowed that if a bill containing the plant-closing provision "is unloaded on my desk, I will stamp it REJECT and ship it back to where it was made." The House nonetheless fought off an attempt to strip the provision from the bill and then passed the legislation 312 to 107. The Senate votes this week; the only question is whether the trade bill, three years in the making and supported by groups as diverse as organized labor, farmers and the oil industry, will pass by a vote larger than the two-thirds necessary to override...
...Harvard and Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth, Cornell and Penn, Brown and Columbia can fight hard-fought, close-fought battles, the league is where it should be, administrators say. No matter that Harvard played Miami it would lose by a truck-load of touchdowns. No matter that if Princeton played Oklahoma, its entire team would be carted off the field in a jumbo-sized ambulance...
Leschly went up, 3-2, in the third set, but Hawkings fought back to take a 5-3 lead. The sophomore then broke Hawkin's sevice-game and held his own to tie the set at 5-5. Each player held his next serve to send the set into a tiebreaker. Hawkins quickly jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Leschly closed the deficit...
...number-three doubles, Kumar and Soni breezed to a 6-3 victory in the first set. But in the second set, Kjeldgaard and Peter Kong fought back...