Word: brawl
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...Lion's progress across the country is not so much geographical as spiritual. Max likes to whore and brawl; Lion favors the easy approach: he sees himself as a scarecrow. "Those crows don't bother the field because they're scared of the scarecrow." Lion tries to live a life of casual but crafty comedy. Max is skeptical, reminding Lion that "you're not playing with a full deck. You've got one foot in the great beyond...
...avid fan remarked that the crowds at contests he attended when he was a high school student in Chicago were more enthusiastic than Harvard backers. In fact, the only time the crowd seemed to get excited this weekend was when a brawl broke out Friday night...
...favorite, there were more than the usual number of prefight imponderables. The line on Foreman was that he was untested. True, he had won 37 straight fights, 34 by knockouts, but his opponents were the most graceless gang of pugs this side of a waterfront brawl. He was undeniably a heavy hitter, but his attack seemed so lacking in finesse that he was sometimes booed in victory. He outweighed Frazier 217½ to 214 Ibs., had an advantage of 3½ in. in height and 5 in. in reach. But the champion had met and manhandled fighters of more imposing...
...Brien, currently the team's second highest scorer, found it "pretty original" and signed with Maryland. Driesell's second season with the Terrapins began with another bang-a punch in the mouth administered by a 240-lb. South Carolina player during a full-court brawl. Driesell loudly criticized South Carolina Coach Frank McGuire for "standing idly by and grinning." McGuire just grinned some more, claiming that the game films showed that Lefty had inadvertently punched himself. "Are you kiddin'?" screamed Driesell. "Do I look that uncoordinated?" South Carolina certainly did when, in a rematch a month later...
...consensus among economists is that the U.S. must overhaul its farm policies by increasing acreage allotments, reducing price supports or doing both. Thinking within the Administration seems to be moving in that direction too, but any proposal to subsidize farmers less generously is certain to start a knockdown political brawl...