Word: struggleâ
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Perhaps unwisely, Carter has insisted that both he and the Congress should have their first-year performance in domestic matters judged almost solely on the energy legislation. The tumultuous tone and tactics of the struggle???including a precedent-smashing Senate filibuster and a whip-cracking maneuver by Majority Leader Robert Byrd to end it?have reinforced the public perception of a wrangling and perhaps even ineffectual Congress...
...play?to compete in or look on the struggle???is an instinct that stems from an early branch of man's evolutionary tree. Playing games not only sharpens the hunting and fighting skills of animals but also, as Jane Goodall found in her studies of the great primates, serves to organize the beasts. In all ages, the human race has used sports to order its social house in virtually every particular of life. English knights jousted for the hand of a lady; Philippine villagers set the boundaries of paddyfields in wrestling matches; Greek city-states staked local pride...
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