Word: hard-fought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the beginning, the race was hard-fought with heavy overtones of bitterness. Chafee relentlessly attacked Pell on his liberal stand on busing, and tried to tie the Senator to McGovern's military reduction proposals that would have devastated Navy-centered Rhode Island. In the early part of the campaign, Chafee's strategy paid off and by September he found himself ten points ahead of Pell in the polls...
...expected, the meet emerged as a hard-fought duel between Princeton and Harvard, with Yale finishing a distant third on the rain-soaked 4.45 mile course. An icy wind which blew steadily at 25 mph kept the temperature down to 36 degrees for the race...
...Alekhine defense, a variation the challenger rarely plays, Spassky faltered in the early going and Bobby seized and held the initiative until the game was adjourned after 41 moves. After a long night of analyzing the position, the two players resumed play the next day in the most harrowing, hard-fought encounter in the match so far. Though behind, Spassky repeatedly countered the menace of Fischer's advancing pawns with some brilliantly conceived threats of his own. Finally, however, after 74 moves and nearly nine hours of play, Bobby's multifaceted assault proved too formidable and Boris resigned...
Tanaka's accession to power may well mark the end of the reserved and cautious style of national stewardship epitomized by his predecessor, Eisaku Sato, 71. The new Premier's election automatically followed his victory in a hard-fought struggle for leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose popularity had eroded in the later years of Sato's 7½-year regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last...
Newfoundland was a British dependency at the time. When Britain offered the islanders the choice of independence or union with Canada after World War II, Smallwood saw opportunity, rallied the proconfederation forces to win a hard-fought referendum and took over the premiership...