Word: fought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are many, many shades of this thingcalled activism," Nelson says. The fact thatactivists on campus have fought for such diverseissues that span from Nigeria to transgenderism,he says, is "unhelpful" to the activist movement...
...some, all this spelled revolution, though except for the bloody battles fought by union organizers, strikers and company goons at some factory gates, it was a remarkably peaceful one. The New Deal, after all, reflected another deeply held belief with roots in the nation's pioneer past: that Americans take care of their own. Though there were those who hated him, F.D.R. by 1936 had inspired enough public hope and confidence to win one of the most overwhelming electoral victories in U.S. history...
...lived through what was the most destructive war in history still refer to it as "the last good war." Not that any war is good and not that there weren't terrible sacrifices, but World War II, as TIME dubbed it, was a war that had to be fought and won. This was an unambiguous struggle between good and evil. It was not just about national interests but also about values. Hitler and Tojo had to be defeated; there was no doubt about it. The U.S. was the "home front"; the "war effort" was priority No. 1; and complaints were...
...presidency of the U.S. in a ballot-box revolution. In a time of unprecedented prosperity with 62.5 million men & women at work, the voters repudiated the party in power--repudiated an administration which held the awesome leverage of a $80 billion-a-year budget. The Democrats frankly fought the campaign on the pocketbook issue: "Don't let them take it away." The people did what materialists and cynics say people never do: voted against what they believed to be their immediate economic interests...
Last week in Lewiston, Me., Cassius Marcellus Clay, 23, fought a fight that did not seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...