Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fasching Brawl. Ever since April 1961, ex-Colonel Antoine-Charles-Louis-Marie Argoud, 48, had been one of the terrorist Secret Army Organization's top leaders. Earlier, as a sector commander in Algeria, he was famed for his use of psychological warfare tactics against the rebel F.L.N. An Argoud specialty: exhibiting in the streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member...
...Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled him out to the street, knocked him down, threw him into an auto and drove away. At the height of Munich's riotous pre-Lenten celebrations, any policeman might have shrugged it off as just another Fasching brawl...
Four Cambridge youths assaulted two Harvard sophomores and a first year Law School student in a brawl at the Capri Sandwich Shop, 1691 Massachusetts Avenue, early this morning. Quentin C. Burrows '65 and John Lowell, Jr. '65, both of Winthrop House, escaped with minor injuries. Richard C. Greenberg, the Law School student, sought treatment at the University Health Services for multiple cuts and bruises...
Gertrude Stein's disenchantment with Hemingway touched off a literary brawl between the two that was better publicized than most but considerably tamer than some-as this lucid and witty guide to literary feuding demonstrates. The casual insult. Author Land points out, is not enough to constitute a feud. Carlyle, for instance, was not feuding with Emerson when he referred to him as "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," or with Swinburne when he refused to meet him on the ground that he did not want to know a man who was "sitting in a sewer and adding...
...When a bloody brawl was touched off by Negro Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson's defeat of white Challenger Jim Jeffries...