Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That juvenile notion may pass undisputed when the boys hold combat among themselves, staging high jinks in their own Yard. But it counts for naught when the battling children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...
...good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife a peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat eating ice cream with his left hand, swinging a club with his right. The riot lasted for an hour and a half. Finally a union leader rushed to a sound truck, and proposed a truce: the canneries would stay closed for the day if the pickets...
...sometimes in the dory of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), the Portuguese crew member who boat-hooked him from the liner's creaming wake, always beset by the wild and hairy faces of these shipmates whose lives, like their bodies, had been twisted into frightening shapes by their long combat with the sea. Harvey begins his quest for something he can chart a course...
...dollars. Blithely C.I.O. appropriated $500,000 for its textile drive, announced it had a war chest of $3,000,000. Observers believed A. F. of L. unions would soon have to raise dues to make up for revenues lost by C.I.O. defections. U. S. organized Labor's mortal combat, anticipated for two years (TIME...
...Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England, foils an attempt on the Queen...