Word: brawl
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...sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like that celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...
...President and his aides have also been reviewing the Administration's general tone, its voices as well as its policies. Almost without question, the G.O.P. congressional campaign left Nixon sobered and disappointed. It may be, too, that the spasms of electoral polemics and his long brawl with Congress have, despite his relish for a fight, offended Nixon's sense of orderly governmental process. Now he is steering toward conciliation and concrete accomplishment, muting the rhetoric that has made some Republicans come to feel that Spiro T. Agnew did the G.O.P. more harm than good in the elections...
Your Basic Brawl...
...made it back to the Owl Club despite the driver's reluctance to go anywhere. The party continued as the remaining members and punchees partook in what a guest described as "sort of a saloon brawl...
...official study also took note of disturbances at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where some 30 black and Puerto Rican Marines attacked 14 whites; one of the white Marines died. Racial antagonisms led to a brawl among 200 black and white soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C. And 17 Marines were injured when blacks and whites, just returned from Vietnam, fought each other at Kaneohe Air Base in Hawaii...