Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges against him. Asked if he had anything to say, Barbie, looking frail in a gray suit, light blue shirt and necktie, replied in French, "I did not carry out the arrests ((of the 44 Jewish children)). I did not have the authority to order the deportations. I fought hard against the Resistance, which I respect. That was war, and the war is over...
...teenager felt rebellious, her mood may have reflected the tension between her parents. John moved out when Whitney was 15, though he and Cissy were never legally separated. "They'd laugh a lot," Whitney says. "And when times were hard, they fought, which taught me a lot about love and sacrifice. For a while they stayed together for our sake. Finally they realized that the only way for them to stay friends was to split. It was strange not to have my father there, but he lives just ten minutes away. Besides, even if you're not together physically...
...this slight distance runner chose to make his name at Annapolis was brutally elemental: boxing. Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith...
...retrospect, Americans have often believed that their nation was inevitable. It did not seem so at the start. The 13 colonies that fought the Revolution had formed a loose confederation, a flimsy arrangement, each state in business for itself, guarding its sovereignty. By 1785 it looked as if the arrangement would disintegrate, that the colonies would at best turn into separate national entities connected only by more or less friendly treaties with one another...
Contagious disease, from cholera to gonorrhea, has traditionally been fought with an array of weapons: education, vaccination, quarantine, testing for infection, reporting those infected as well as tracing and notifying others who have been exposed. Today general AIDS information programs are getting under way, but no vaccine exists. Mass confinement and quarantine are dismissed as impractical, even impossible. It is the last three options that are provoking heated controversy, as the uproar over testing shows...