Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surge of women, often with family members' disapproval, forsook their dish towels for grenades. By 1978, 40 per cent of FSLN comandantes were women, and by spring 1979, four of the seven military chiefs of staff were female. Several battles, including the final insurrection in Leon, were led by women. Such a high level of female participation in a guerrilla movement has been paralleled only by the Viet Cong...
...regain the crown. Seven years it took, but right triumphed. Now Ali held two titles, the heavyweight championship and the People's Championship. Ali risked his second heavyweight crown ten times, but he never had to defend the People's title. That was his. Ali lost to Leon Spinks--lost the heavyweight championship, that is. Then won it back, for the third time. Never before had that been done. Retired, heavyweight and People's crowns intact...
...those men, Edward J. Soares and Richard S. Allen are now free. Leon J. Easterling, who twice testified that he stabbed Puopolo and Thomas J. Lincoln '77 during an early morning Combat Zone brawl, is awaiting an appeal of his conviction for manslaughter...
...title in 1964 on a seventh-round knockout of Sonny Liston. Stripped of the crown in 1967 after he refused to serve in the military, he regained it in his eight-round knockout of George Foreman in the Kinshasa, Zaire, "Rumble in the Jungle" of 1974. After losing to Leon Spinks in 1978, Ali regained the title for an unprecendented third time when he defeated Spinks later that year...
...concert hall to such locations as the all-black Trinity Baptist Church and the federal prison on Terminal Island. The Abyssinian Church, a social and cultural landmark of Harlem, seemed an appropriate starting point for a similar effort in New York. The Philharmonic's director of educational activities, Leon Thompson, certainly approved: he also happens to be music director at the church...