Word: brawlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...
...Kevin Chalmers-whose chichi accent is cruelly transcribed: "I'd just had about four gallons of a positively toxic firedamp called a Gibson ..." Chalmers is not only a drunk who has been kicked out of the British embassy in Washington (as was Burgess), but a pervert and a brawler. Chance, security officers, and their own folly put him and Gleave in the same boat, headed for anonymity and dishonor in the service of the Soviet...
RICHARD CROKER, born in County Cork, Ireland, the son of Eyre Coote Croker. As a youth in New York, Dick Croker was leader of the Fourth Avenue Tunnel Gang, was the most feared brawler in town. At 22, Croker voted 17 times one day for a Democratic candidate for constable. Such an enterprising fellow was bound to become Tammany's leader...
...Liotta, a brawler out of Boston's North End who fights under the name of Tony DeMarco, delighted a home-town crowd with a 14-round assault that knocked Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton senseless and separated him from his tainted title (TIME...
Over the years, in the minds of hundreds of naval officers, the Baltimore brawler with the boxer's rolling shuffle came to epitomize the ideals of the Naval Academy. But though Spike belonged to the Navy, he also found time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...