Word: fought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Confronted by the Huskies adventurous sophomore goalkeeper Kathleen Madaua, Nagle fought hard for control of the ball, and slipped an easy shot past a helpless Madaua lying sprawled on her back...
...gave Harvard its first point, pulling off a tension-filled 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) win over Zaman. The veteran Green then fought back after losing the first set 6-4 to beat Steve Millerman 6-0, 6-2 in the next two sets at the No. 1 match. Freshman Oli Choo, playing at No. 5, completed the remarkable comeback, with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Oscar Chow...
...having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...
...Experts cite an absence of discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek ran red with blood. Park...
Nichols' story is remarkable. He not only fought for the drug's development in the face of total disinterest by drugmakers and mainstream cancer scientists but may also have opened the door to a whole new family of cancer drugs. Says Dr. Francis Giardiello, chief of gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins: "He spurred them to look into this a lot deeper and a lot faster than they would have otherwise. He has a proud legacy." He may also posthumously save the life...