Word: brawled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Defoliation. The signs of anti-Americanism are most obvious in Saigon. Nightly, along the city's gaudy Tu Do and Hai Ba Trung streets, G.I.s and South Vietnamese troops swap insults and punches-often over the favors of bar girls. In one such honky-tonk brawl earlier this month, a major in the Vietnamese Rangers chopped off the hand of a U.S. military policeman with a machete. In June, two American military police who had rushed to a bar in response to complaints that a drunken G.I. was making trouble were shot to death by Lieut. Colonel Nguyen...
...your basic tavern brawl, and you just had to love it. Here we were in Ithaca, New York, at 1 a.m. Saturday, easing off that long, long trip from Cambridge at one of Cornell's local barrooms. Barrooms in New York state are supposed to close at 1 a.m., but it was Harvard weekend and there were still $2.50 worth of teenybopper songs that hadn't been played on the juke...
...shoved somebody, and he was shoved in return. I wondered for a moment whether the altercation that had to follow would be a fight or a brawl. There is a crucial difference. A fight assumes that you have a reasonably good idea of whom you are belting, and why. In a brawl, you aren't that particular about either...
...moment that I saw the guy go crashing through a window. I knew it was going to be a brawl, and a classic one at that. It was just the way I had always envisioned it. In Athens last summer I had seen American sailors tear apart a clip joint in retaliation for a few hundred drachma in change that they never happened to get back from the bartender. But here, in Ithaca, New York, people were brawling just for the pure joi? de sport...
...spotted the proprietor right about then, and swaggered over to talk with him. He was visibly impressed with the brawl, and we had several moments of light conversation about it. Eventually he shrugged and grinned. "Harvard and Cornell, you know." I knew...