Word: fray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced the prospect of being labelled social deviants. Now it's kind of exciting to be able to scramble with the rest for a piece of the pie. We've received social sanctions for our efforts, to boot. We're the first generation of Radcliffe women to enter the fray with zeal and confidence...
...than four years. Heady with victory, the army was obviously waiting for the chance to bring a new-found sense of morality to Uruguay's larger problems. It came last month, when a Montevideo paper documented charges of corruption against the city council. The army immediately joined the fray, demanding the aldermen be punished. When President Bordaberry fired his Defense Minister, who had supported the army's demands, the battle lines were drawn...
More often than not, U.S. judges are magisterial black-robed referees who leave the legal combat to the attorneys appearing before them. Sometimes, however, they join the fray, as in the just-completed Watergate trial in Washington, where both prosecution and defense seemed so reluctant to mix it up that Judge John J. Sirica was moved to do his own questioning (see THE NATION). In the Pentagon papers trial in Los Angeles, it is Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. who has been forced into taking on both sides...
Certainly, deference to The Advocate was one reason for the decision to become a weekly, but an eagerness to get into the middle of the journalistic fray, join in the press war which was developing at Harvard, must have helped prompt the decision. The editors of The Crimson had stood by for three years while not one but two dailies had been founded. The Harvard Echo in December of 1879 and The Harvard Daily Herald in January of 1892. While the adventurous and talented Herald moved in for the kill on the more stolid and less interesting Echo, The Crimson...
...heroes have returned from the fray an' will shortly squat before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...