Word: fought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shelly Finkel said he and Tyson want someone better than Peter McNeeley, whom Tyson fought--and knocked out in the first round--in his first comeback fight when he was released from prison...
...democracy are dirty words in Russia today. Most Russians have never realized that freedom requires responsibility, that it demands visceral, spiritual discipline. Freedom can be based only on firm ethical and legal norms, and these norms have to be hammered out and strengthened for centuries by those who fought for freedom. But we received our freedom as a gift from our masters' hands. Ten years ago, Russia swore by freedom--and measured its worth by the availability of sausage. We had borrowed the concept of freedom from those who had succeeded at it, but we never realized that...
Unlike those before him who had fought back vindictively and sporatically, Mandela planned a methodical strategy for combating the injustice he saw around him-a strategy of societal education and leadership by personal strength...
...They defined their age," says Robert H. Bates, Eaton professor of the science of government, and acting chair of the African Studies committee. "Each of them were liberators. They fought against tyranny...
...have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared...