Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Johns Hopkins University Bluejays and the Mount Washington Club Wolfpack squared off to bash skulls for the national open lacrosse championship, the title was sure to stay where it belongs: in Baltimore, lacrosse capital of the U.S. Both Baltimore teams were unbeaten and untied when the game started; they were still unbeaten when it ended. After two overtime periods and 70 minutes of mayhem on the lawn, the final score...
...owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites the dusk!" Sam informs his new manager that he will have to use his nishertive as well as clever tictacs to hold his own among citizens who are given to throwing fulsuric acid and include not a few sexual regenerates. They will steal even the light...
...second half bring any tragic reversal. Hubris, to the last, goes unpunished; only Death defeats the conqueror, and it by thrombosis, not spears or thunderbolts. Before that, the insatiable barbarian whose only principle is "the argument of arms" has created a pageant of carnage and torture. Caged royal captives bash out their brains; men hanged in chains are pierced by arrows: conquered kings must draw their conqueror...
Good Emil. His German air force training started with ill-fitting uniforms and clodhopper boots, loneliness, the desire to "bash [the NCO] over the head with a rifle butt," the eternally drummed-in theme: "You have got to be tough as Krupp's steel...
Those prep school boys were slightly obnoxious though. They were up here for some hockey tournament, and one night they would be strutting around the lobby with fierce looks, mumbling, "Beat somebody or other." And the next night they did everything but bash their heads against the wall and kick over chairs because they had lost a game to "a bunch of ringers." Two or three leered up to Vag and asked where they could get a drink in this joint, and he told them, because it meant they would go to bed sooner...