Word: fought
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Several trips earlier, Harvey fought through the lane to grab senior center Bill Ewing's miss and put the ball back for a bucket...
...have no personal experience with war," he said quietly. "I have only visited Normandy as a tourist. But I do know this: my father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago, and I know how he would feel if he were here today. He didn't fight, no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought, as all those did, for our country and our Constitution. As long as each of us--a manager, the President's counsel, a Senator--does his or her constitutional duty, those who fought for their country will be proud...
Into Saturday night, ECOMOG fought to maintain control. Since most of the R.U.F. leaders had been killed in the previous few weeks of fighting, most rebel positions in the city were held by 15- and 16-year-old boys, who looted and burned huge swaths of downtown. ECOMOG forces patrolling Freetown's main streets were continually harassed by Kalashnikov-wielding teenagers who slipped from dark alleys, machine-gunned them for 15 or 30 seconds and then slipped away again. After sunset the teenagers, many of them high on local hallucinogens, set houses on fire--night candles, they called them...
During his years in office, Rowe, a Washingtonnative who had once been NBC's top lawyer in thecity, set his sights on America's capital, makingHarvard a formidable influence in thecongressional world. Under Rowe's guidance, theUniversity fought for--and often won on--issues asvaried as continuing affirmative action andincreasing federal funding for scientificresearch...
...Gandhi, widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, led Congress to victory in last year?s regional elections, which were fought over such bread-and-butter issues as the country?s onion shortage. ?By projecting Sonia as a Christian and implying that there?s a threat to Hindus from conversions, they?re trying to create an issue with which to beat Congress,? says Rahman. Still, that?s unlikely to impress voters unless there?s an onion in every...