Word: fought
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...always been grateful to the U.S. for the part its Army played in helping liberate the Netherlands in World War II. Acting through an intermediary in February, the businessman (who insists on anonymity) gave the Brauers 100,000 Swiss francs -- about $60,000. Ernie, an Army veteran who fought in Holland during the war, said simply, "Thank God." Margie was more expansive. "I had accepted the fact that things would never be the same again," she said. "It's just a blessing...
Since the mid-1960s, the U.S. has enacted the most sweeping civil rights laws in its history, fought a costly war on poverty and aggressively pursued affirmative action to increase opportunities for blacks. Millions of them, as a result, have escaped the ghetto to join the mainstream middle class. But to the consternation of scholars, officials and blacks themselves, a seemingly ineradicable black underclass has multiplied in inner-city neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime and teenage illegitimacy...
...this 4,000-year story springs from what Johnson identifies as "Jewish obstinacy," the ability to persevere through centuries of persecution and assimilation. He recounts the history of Hebron, where Abraham bought land from Ephron the Hittite. He describes how the first piece of Jewish real estate has been fought over and occupied countless times, most recently by Israel after the Six-Day War, and asks, "Where are all those peoples which once held the place?" His answer: "They have vanished into time, irrevocably. But the Jews are still in Hebron...
...disappointed to read the words of the women who would deny their affiliation with Radcliffe [May 6]. After all, it was Radcliffe and her students who fought hard to integrate the male and female student bodies so that women could enjoy the education and facilities that Harvard today provides them. Why should we, the women of Harvard-Radcliffe, shove aside the women's college as if it represented a sordid past? Radcliffe has always provided the finest education and services, and still does. Granted, every woman at Harvard does not knock herself out to take advantage of all Radcliffe...
...Hansie Willemse, a farmer near the Zimbabwe border: "I fought in Zimbabwe for 22 years. Yes, I fought. Now I'm sick of fighting. I think they are capable here of sorting something out around a table. That's what should have happened 50 years ago. I don't think it's too late...