Word: brawl
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...kind of personal identification that went on in Visotzky's group, as when the group discusses Jacob, the wildly ambitious, God-haunted wanderer who hoodwinks Esau and goes on to wrestle a mysterious adversary, emerging with a limp and a blessing. Artist Hugh O'Donnell recalls the bloody brawl he had with his farmer father before the older man laughed and said, "You're all right," and accepted his son's calling. And Moyers himself speaks up. "At 40," says the man who started his career in the public eye as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, "I did more wounding...
...BUSTER SOARIES, 44; SOMERSET, N.J.; youth worker In 1994 Soaries, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Somerset, intervened to secure the release of 12 middle-school boys jailed for leading a brawl. He then founded Brothers Working Together, which he says aims "to help young people realize that they have options beyond the street corner." The program, which offers guidance and tutoring to 60 at-risk students, was lauded by Governor Christine Whitman at the Republican Convention...
...paralyzed during a racial gunfight. Neo-Nazis generally agree that the Metzgers set the standard for inventive recruiting when John insulted Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality during a 1988 Geraldo Rivera show and started a slugfest. Rivera got a broken nose in the ensuing brawl, and White Aryan Resistance's telephone lines lit up with new members. "After that," notes Leyden, "when somebody said he joined in 1988, we knew he was a Geraldo skin...
...YORK CITY: The Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota bout-turned brawl, left another black eye on the sport of boxing and may have delivered a knockout punch to professional fights at Madison Square Garden. The bout turned ugly in the seventh round, when referee Wayne Kelly disqualified Golota, a heavy underdog who was clearly winning the fight, for repeated low blows. As Golota dejectedly walked back to his corner, handlers and hangers on overflowed the ring. Bernard Brooks Sr., a confidant of Bowe, shoved Golota from behind and then slapped him on the face. After Golota retaliated with a left, another...
Most club members agree that a February 1995 brawl at the D.U. between D.U. club member Sean M. Hansen '95 and John Burnham, a star high school quarterback from Washington D.C., marked the beginning of the end for the club...