Word: brawler
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...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler. . . . They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
...Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick with his fists; these talents were sometimes useful to Alain, who had picked up a wide underworld acquaintance of pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles...
...born brawler and natural teller of war stories. Mailer gives us the coordinates of the enemy-the timid, shortsighted publishers who at first shrank from the novel's excoriating, charged treatment of Hollywood life. He tells of his anxieties and the state of his abused liver-which, if the laws of metaphor may be suspended briefly, he has worn as proudly as a Purple Heart. And Mailer never lets the reader forget that he is an important and dedicated writer constantly bent on making his prose as penetrating as his visions...
...things! If this is all in fun, he had better tell Flowers about it!" Then, as the crowd noise mounted to a frenzy in the eleventh round, LeBow shouted: "Rocky connects with a solid right to the head! This is Graziano the street fighter, the great lusty, gutsy brawler! Rocky bombs a right to the face, a right to the jaw, another right to the jaw, and Flowers is down! Down and it seems out . . . five ... six ... no movement . . . eight . . . nine . . . ten! Rocky is jumping up and down, his joy wild and unrestrained...
...sense, Congress is reflecting the mood of a nation that cannot understand all this upheaval. Its response is that of an ignorant tavern brawler. It lashes out to batter this strange opposition, to squash it so it won't be a problem anymore...