Word: brawls
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...appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers: "Why don't you get a decent job and stop living on our taxes?" One German unit reported that seven out of every ten of its men had been either insulted or attacked physically...
...bond each, Henry told them that the guard would not interfere in anything that happened between them and photographers waiting outside the town jail. The released prisoners took the hint. While guardsmen watched, the photographers were left to defend themselves in a free-swinging sidewalk brawl. When the newsmen angrily protested being denied protection on a public street, Henry barked: "I don't have to defend myself to you people...
...Speakers' platforms are gimmicked up to catch both festival and brawl. A teleprompter will be rigged alongside special air-blowers designed to keep speakers cool under the TV glare, and a built-in elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large...
...Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby. Mont, when Jack Dempsey beat Tommy Gibbons in 1923 that he almost broke the town. There was fat Jack Solomons of London, the ex-fishmonger, determined to give the brawl some real English class. There was a Canadian mining promoter named David Rush, a talented sport with an improbable aptitude for turning penny stocks into folding money...
Right ill-dispos'd in brawl ridiculous...