Word: fought
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...open governance issue, being fought by both alumni and students, has had remarkably little assistance from the council. Steadfastly refusing to broach any issues which seem political, such as divestment or the union drive, the council has been wary of joining in on a movement--led by campus activists--for a more accountable Corporation. The council plans to be silent on these critical issues in its upcoming meeting indicates its fear of challenging the administration--and reflects the abdication of its role as the student's political representative...
Freedom of navigation, a principle the U.S. Navy fought to assert against Libya in the Gulf of Sidra in 1986, was at stake again last week in the Black Sea. Two U.S. warships, the destroyer Caron and the cruiser Yorktown, sailed about ten miles off the Crimean peninsula in the Soviet Union. The ships were warned that they were violating Soviet territorial waters and then were bumped, the Caron by a Soviet patrol craft and the Yorktown by a destroyer. Damage was slight, and there were no casualties...
...tendency to kill and castrate strangers. On the staff of a British district commission in the Sudan, he was regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...
...said today a friend had told him, "Bruce, you fought a good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning...
After receiving a first-round bye, Harvard's Darius Pandole crushed Bruce Haupteaur in straight-games. Pandole then met freshman sensation John Musto of Yale. Pandole recorded a hard-fought 9-15, 15-8, 15-8, 9-15, 15-12 victory...