Word: catfight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable documentation last week at the New York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly, in the five-day catfight he came out the conqueror of Governor Averell Harriman (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955). At the same time, New York Republicans held a two-day love feast, nominated Nelson A. Rockefeller for Governor, and got set for an election rivaled in national interest only by the fight for California's governorship...
...once, the Detroit River came alive. Flippant rooster tails of spray arced high as six hopped-up speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...