Word: combativeness
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...open, its friends put Mr. Smith first into the New Hampshire primary where Governor Roosevelt beat him. But later they carried Massachusetts for him, "chocked" the Roosevelt bandwagon. Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey fell into line. Candidate Smith began to feel all the old exhilaration of political combat. Completely forgotten now were his 1928 words. As a personal matter he wanted the nomination; as a party matter he was determined Governor Roosevelt should not get it by default...
...minds of many there will be a strong suspicion that it was more than robbery. More probably it was premeditated dishonesty. Had Sharkey "won," there would now be little excuse for a third combat. As it is, the stage is set for another bout, to bring in gate receipts for the fighters, and lucre for any judges whom either manager may care to bribe. In athletics, too, New York seems to have "the best judges money can buy;" at best, they are unduly patriotic. If there were more Yankee triotic. If there were more Yankee shrewdness in the nation...
...annual meeting in Washington last month the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced a new campaign to combat Jim Crowism. Planned by Lawyer Nathan R. Margold of New York, a program was adopted to bring simultaneously "more than 100 cases in as many communities to test the right of States or of individuals to infringe on the social as well as the civic rights of Negroes...
...plane on one side of which is painted a number unknown to the hound-pilots. The hare is given a five-minute start, is limited to county boundaries. Hounds try to corner the hare, then get within reading distance of the secret number-a maneuver requiring dogfight combat tactics...
...even in the children. According to their own ethics they are completely justified in ignoring the plight of the operators who have faced insuperable difficulties on account of the growing use of substitutees for coal. In the same spirit the capitalists feel no compunctions in employing every means to combat the miners, even to the subversion of police power. Neither side considers the problem intelligently, and the only egress from the resulting impasse is afforded when one group reaches the limits of its resources...