Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the first session was gaveled to order by State Democratic Chairman John M. "Pat" Lynch, a brawl among members of the Credentials Committee had to be stopped by Springfield police. And there was action aplenty outside the Convention hall. On Thursday morning McCormack called a press conference at the Sheraton-Kimball Hotel and charged Kennedy with lying about the number of times he has voted since turning...
Anxious to speed the noisy group on its way, Owner Peter Cook of London's Establishment Club asked sarcastically, "Can I show you the way out?", got a bash in the face for his flippancy. When the ensuing brawl ended, he turned to spirited Actress Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 38, one of the group, and protested, "You scratched me." Quick to pick up a cue, Siobhan studied her hands with the care of a Lady Macbeth, then held them high and blared, "These are Irish hands, and they are clean." Cook was unmoved. "This is a British face...
...election of Segni, the candidate of the right and a firm supporter of NATO, took five days, nine ballots, and a ten-minute brawl between deputies of the left and right benches of the Chamber. Curiously, though, it has not yet antagonized the coalition's left so much as rigidified opposition to the coalition on the Christian Democratic right. Incensed by the desertion of Segni in the early ballots by the party's left, the right now threatens the effective withdrawal of support from the government...
...wonders. "Yes," she muses, "but he wouldn't appeal to you." When the cruise is over, Berry-berry moves off with a box of the lady's baubles, picks up a schoolteacher (Barbara Baxley) on Christmas vacation, knocks out a few of her teeth in a barroom brawl, lands in the frost in St. Louis...
...house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal...