Word: brawls
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...including two hysterical women, joined the kicking, clawing, screaming mob. A man and a woman from a nearby insurance office tried to help Turner. The man was driven back and pelted with eggs; the woman was pushed against a storefront by another woman. Arriving belatedly, police broke up the brawl. Sneered one of Turner's assailants while being led away: "That'll teach yuh, Reverend...
...typical of American thinking that the solution to an intricate social problem would be sought in a hamburger-joint brawl, or in a Civil War. Hollywood's implied linking of Mexican social status with Negro social status is specious. But the oversimplification is revealing, because it illustrates the crudity which characterizes the "American approach" to things...
...McLaughlin, credited with killing some 150 enemy soldiers at Bunker Hill, was whittled down to the rank of private, fined $120 and given a three-month stretch at hard labor. Better able to hold a hard position than hard liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major Henry Checklou. McLaughlin's beef: Checklou was always taunting him about that medal. On the other hand, the one-man army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, credited with dispatching 40 Nazi soldiers to the glory...
...good blaming this situation on the "white rabble rousers" in the Citizens' Councils, either. For the most part, these men are not uneducated, unreasoned leaders longing for a brawl...
...short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour of Britain, Canada and the U.S., returned to down 25 more Germans in twelve days, five of them in a flamboyant two-hour curtain brawl after he had received orders to return to London...