Word: brawl
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...current undergraduate members of the D.U.--which has been plagued over the past year with financial ills, a brawl and feuds with its graduate board--will not automatically be accepted into...
...Oval Office session that evening, Gingrich presented the proposal he had cooked up at the restaurant, and argued that he had come a long way. But then came what looks like a defining moment in the talks, and in the whole bare-knuckle brawl. The Speaker warned that he would not allow a bill to come to a floor vote if he could not expect to win 200 Republican votes, out of 236 total. He had two reasons for drawing that line: first, he is determined that any balanced-budget plan have a distinctly Republican stamp; and second, he wants...
...budget deadlock being what it is, perhaps a good brawl would be a more appropriate vehicle to settle the dispute than endless negotiations over Medicare minutiae. I could see it now. Clinton is bigger, but Gingrich is quicker on his feet. You call Don King. I'll rent the steel cage...
...successful. The mambo contest in the dance hall is wonderful from the first syncopated shout. The extended pursuit of Jets by Sharks, and vice versa, which opens the musical is deft and witty. It is tribute enough to the dancers' skills that twelve people can have an elaborately choreographed brawl on the Agassiz's cramped stage without seeming awkward; credit for this must also go to the choreographer, Isabel Legarda, who assimilates Jerome Robbins without duplicating him. The production reaches its height in the exuberant "Gee, Officer Krupke," which finds all the humor present in the music and words...
...brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members....The subsequent hush-up suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students....This sort of gang assault should be prosecuted as a serious crime....We recommend two courses of action for the University: 1) a careful examination of the recruiting program, since it is clear that football team members can no longer take care of their own and 2) an end to the persistent coddling of students who commit serious crimes...