Word: brawls
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...Pitch. That was about as far as hot-tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
...year-old Cambridge residents were released on charges of drunkenness yesterday morning after a brawl on Boylston Street with five students...
...week's end, Columnist Walter Winchell sneered in Hearst's rival Mirror that the brawl was just "a neat press [agents'] stunt." The News, which didn't care, gratefully prepared to send $10 to the nightclubber who had tipped...
...price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...
...meeting was called as a result of an inter-fraternity brawl which swept the campus last Friday night, leaving black eyes and broken windows in its wake...