Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory over the Chicago Black Hawks in the last game of the Stanley Cup playoffs; at Montreal. Jean Beliveau started the rout with a goal after 14 sec. of play, and the Canadiens added the other three before the first period ended. After that, it was back to the brawl. In seven games - 17½ hrs. of playing time-players from both teams spent 5 hrs. 29 min. in the penalty...
Died. Gail Neal, 29, California tennis-club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...When the brawl finally ended, Harvard had lost Price and Captain John Daly. Four Cornell players were also thrown out of the game...
Conveniently flung together by hard luck, the four men head through Apache country to find a Southern trader who may know the whereabouts of 2,000 carbines stolen from a U.S. Cavalry shipment. En route they brawl and bicker, drink and debauch in a rugged Old West that appears to be crawling with bandidos, prostitutes and sadistic savages. They add an Indian girl to their retinue, a sensible primitive who talks little and doesn't keep any of the fellows awake nights...
Khrushchev's gravest error, in his successors' eyes, lay in conducting the Soviet-Red Chinese ideological dispute as if it were a barroom brawl. He was so busy argy-bargying with Peking that he completely failed to recognize China's accelerated scientific progress, thus let Mao Tse-tung gain valuable prestige by exploding his bomb without warning...