Word: affrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not be his science that has betrayed him, but rather the complete prostration of his moral values . . . Our generation is presented with what may well be the final choice between the use of knowledge to build a rational world or its use to arm, for one last desperate affray, the savage and uncivilized passions of mankind...
Observers, spiking rumors that the display was Communist-oriented noted that the explosions came from widely scattered and entirely reputable sources. A Student Council agent, scowling at the affray, mentioned the possibility of a combined poll and probe, but Yard police were unimpressed...
...rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
Nowhere in the official account of Captain Cook's voyages, as issued after the return of the expedition in 1784, is it charged that Captain Cook or the marines who were killed in the affray were eaten by the natives...