Word: brawl
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...contest for the French presidency approached its critical second round, the nation's two veteran political challengers pitched into what promised to be a bruising, strictly two-way brawl to the finish. Center-Right Candidate Valery Giscard d'Estaing was the first to drop his customary Olympian hauteur. In a series of campaign rallies last week, France's incumbent President denounced Socialist Contender Francois Mitterrand as a captive of the Communists. "From now on," Giscard told his supporters in Dole, "whether he wants to or not, whether he knows it yet or not, Monsieur Mitterrand is also...
...Yankees traded him in 1957 after a brawl at New York's Copacabana nightclub. His career rapidly declined, and he wandered through six teams in five years. Then Martin was hired by the Minnesota Twins as a coach in 1965 and became manager four years later...
...Billyball, it was still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...
Back-slappin drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl...
...conceivable that World War III could start with the U.S. and Soviet Union taking sides, however reluctantly, in such a regional brawl. One possible site is the volatile Horn of Africa, where the forces of instability are as much demographic as geopolitical; famine and tribal vendettas might turn out to be as destructive as Kremlin scheming. The superpowers might be drawn in, since Soviet as well as Cuban forces are entrenched in Ethiopia, while the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force has access to bases in Ethiopia's hostile neighbor, Somalia...