Word: brawl
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Sports Bar Brawl...
...brawl in front of the Harvard Square Sports Club on JFK St. last July provoked the local furor over the bars. According to police reports, the fight erupted among patrons outside the sports bar on July 27, 10 minutes before the 2 a.m. closing time. After several residents complained of the noise and violence from the brawl, the police arrived, broke up the mob and arrested three people...
...first two minutes, the two teams generated an astounding six penalties, four of which were for roughing. It took until the 4:35 mark before the two teams finally went five-on-five, but even that didn't change the flow of the game. It still resembled a brawl...
Whenever American politicians try to use trade as a carrot or a stick abroad, the result is almost always a domestic brawl. "There are simply too many voices and competing interests on our side to deliver a clear, coherent, timely message," says Paula Stern, a former head of the U.S. International $ Trade Commission. A fire-breathing anticommunist on Capitol Hill may want to starve America's enemies into submission, but a farm-state legislator would prefer to sell them his constituents' grain...
...school-yard brawl, the opening provocation was a taunt: "Independence!" But within 36 hours, the war of words between the republic of Slovenia and forces of the Yugoslav People's Army had escalated into a real fight, with the two sides trading lethal blows that left at least 40 dead and many more injured...