Word: combatting
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Razo, a Harvard varsity football player, turned to PCP to combat this confusion. His defense had centered around the claim that his confession to the burglaries was spurred by a PCP-induced psychosis...
...demanded immediate steps to combat triple-digit inflation, including tax reform, making the zloty convertible with Western currency and creating a stock exchange...
Razo, a Harvard varsity football player, turned to PCP to combat this confusion. His defense had centered around the claim that his confession to the burglaries was spurred by a PCP-induced psychosis...
...British sent all kinds of boats. Big ones, little ones, paddle steamers, yachts, everything. It was gorgeous weather, hot and beautiful. Guys were lying on the dunes, shirts off, watching the combat between the British and German fighters. When they'd see a German fighter go down, they'd applaud...
Confrontation and struggle have marked much of Silber's career. "Everything is combat to him," says one B.U. professor. Born in San Antonio, Silber grew up in the hardscrabble Depression years. His mother helped support the family as a schoolteacher while his father, a German architect, tried to make ends meet. Silber started life with a deformed right arm, and his efforts to overcome that handicap probably contributed to his combativeness. After graduate forays into law and religion -- he once studied for the ministry -- Silber received a doctorate in philosophy from Yale and went on to teach at the University...