Word: brawl
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...across the street to where a few of the A.F.L. men were waiting. "All right," boomed Mike Gaffey, "get the men off the ship." The beleaguered crew ran through the line to their comrades. Big Mike and his men had averted what might easily have been the worst waterfront brawl since the bloody...
...sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny is five, too young to care about much except where the next ice cream cone is coming from...
...game may well prove a wide-open, free scoring brawl, for each squad is offensively strong just where its opponent is most susceptible on defense...
Hope for a Compromise. All of the unions were trying to force a reconvening of the National Assembly-the Socialists and Catholics in real hope of a solution, or at least a graceful pretext for going back to work, the Communists in hope of a brawl that would worsen the nation's plight. Laniel was conferring with the Force Ouvrière and Catholic leaders, but not with the Reds...
...Vegas. The natives are marched to church by club-wielding wardens, bronzed maidens must be fully clothed at all times, and boys and girls who go swimming together are flogged. In this unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle rustlers. One notably effective scene: the missionary's amazed and humble discovery that the natives will come to church without being driven by the wardens' clubs, simply because they want to pray...