Word: brawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Limbering Up. In Aosta, Italy, Salvatore Bracciorosso was arrested after using his wooden leg to fell several opponents in a barroom brawl...
...PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely...
...Harm's Way." Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
...roughest, bitterest brawl of the 86th Congress. Into Washington poured sacks full of mail from the folks back home. Lobbyists swarmed through Capitol corridors. Worried Congressmen cussed, consulted and conspired. Moving toward a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives was the year's most intensely debated legislation: a labor bill aimed at ending the racketeering and hoodlumism that had become all too evident in some unions, especially the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters under its president, James Riddle Hoffa. The House had three choices before...
...most unseemly and undignified for the Vice President of the U.S. to engage in a public brawl with that expert in that field, Mr. Khrushchev, and worse still that he came off second best. After all, he should have remembered the technique of the late Joe McCarthy...