As a jewish teenager he was a doughty street-fighter in the london slums , where adherents of pre-war fascism were once again marching , chanting " get rid of the yids " .
Some american friends of israel argue gamely that israel is a strategic asset to the superpower , a doughty democracy that provides intelligence , high technology , storage for american weapons and so forth .
A doughty lover of liberty , who believed government , should be small , laws unobtrusive , and men left alone to take responsibility for their own lives and their own decisions .
This spring , mervyn king , the doughty governor of the bank of england , has good reason to think about the birds and bees alongside other matters linked to zoology , epidemiology or ecology .
