Word: brawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filled the Bowl in New Haven for last year's Harvard-Yale game saw the Crimson march to a chaotic but decisive victory. The ball changed hands on fumbles and interceptions eleven times, both teams failed to get off fourth down punts because of bad passes, there was a brawl in the final minutes of the game, and Harvard walked off with a 27-0 win and a share of the Ivy Championship...
...radical step in what I hope is the right direction," explained Crooner Pat Boone, 28, heretofore always the Mr. Clean of the movie business. Hoping to do right by doing wrong, Boone plays the heavy in 7 Arts' The Main Attraction. He is knocked silly in a barroom brawl and revived by Chianti spilled over his head by a circus floozy. He sleeps in her wagon ("Won't there be talk?"), later stabs her husband, runs away, is seduced by a bareback rider. Where on earth went all of Pat's on-screen morality? "I have stepped...
Arab nations seldom brawl more passionately than when they get together to promote Arab unity. As fraternal delegates streamed into a special session of the Arab League in the Lebanese resort town of Shtura last week, security police relieved them of several dozen pistols. Syria's Ambassador Khalil Kallas key noted the eleven-day session by announcing sweetly: "We have come here to cut off Nasser's head and end his reptile tactics." The Egyptians spat back that the Syrians were "barking dogs." The Iraqis for once had nothing to say; they boycotted the conference when they heard...
...crowd surged toward him and knocked him to the ground. Struggling to his feet, the 65-year-old sometime M.P. mounted an open truck amid a hail of rotten fruit and heavy English pennies (which were seldom so wasted in Depression days). Before he could open the meeting, the brawl was on. Within minutes, Mosley was led away under heavy police escort, while grim-faced bobbies arrested...
...problem is worse in some areas than in others. A few drive-ins have had to hire their own corps of guards. But local police chiefs generally keep an eye on them as potential trouble spots. During the past year, Houston drive-ins have seen a murder, a gang brawl involving Rice University football players, and a generous share of assaults...