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...preventing a bare-knuckled brawl for the presidency, Ky and Thieu seem to have assured a relatively honest election. They have also made certain that the unity of the armed forces will be preserved; military officers will no longer have to worry about losing their jobs for backing the wrong man. To be sure, some South Vietnamese were disturbed by the prospect of continued rule by the military men who have run the country for the past two years. But most U.S. officials are convinced that at the present stage of South Viet Nam's political development, and with...
...tung's turbulent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had hardly begun before it boiled down to a bitter brawl for power between Mao and the more pragmatic Politburo faction led by President Liu Shao-chi. By last fall, Mao seemed to be getting the upper hand. Liu no longer attended official functions, and his name was dropped from the list of leaders of the People's Republic. Last week Mao finally made it official...
...past six months, Mao has tried to run his revolution through a three-way alliance between party members, Red Guards and the army. The result has been a three-way brawl. Now, in what amounts to a coup within a revolution, power has largely passed to the 2,500,000-man army of Vice Premier Lin Piao...
...sexes. As her mate, a self-centered architect, Finney is not so fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
Composite Candidate. Though the Democrats can be expected to brawl right up to election eve 1968, they at least have settled the most bitterly divisive issue of all-who their candidates will be. The Republicans are just getting started, and some rough mileage stretches ahead. The ideal candidate would have to be a G.O.P.-style L.B.J., only with the charisma and the capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy...