Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain how well these soldiers might have fought markedly superior U.S. Army and Marine forces backed by helicopter gunships and operating from several scattered bases. Macho U.S. officers insist the beer-bellied P.D.F. regulars would not have dared to challenge them. Skeptics argue that the limited holding operation the rebels asked for would probably have failed and that U.S. forces would have been forced into a much bloodier fight...
Playing in its first Ivy game of the season, the Crimson fought to upset the Big Red on its own home court. It didn't happen. Cornell outlasted Harvard, 15-7, 15-13, 14-16, 15-7, to end any thoughts of a Crimson victory...
...cannot exist 'half slave, half free' in women's rights," Yard said. "One hundred and thirty years ago we fought a civil war because this country could not exist 'half-slave half-free.' Once again, America is embattled...
Heavy security was ordered in case of attacks by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group that has fought Peruvian governments since...
They have known almost nothing but war. For a generation men have fought over the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, the colonial palaces of Phnom Penh, and the rich rice paddies along the Mekong River, leaving more than a million Cambodians dead and their land in ruins. But at long last the shell-shocked country had something to cheer. Cambodians crowded the streets last week to hail the withdrawal of the last of the 200,000 Vietnamese troops who had occupied their country for nearly eleven years. Across the eastern border in Viet Nam, there was also celebration. Senior officials...