Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners to sign on members of their union (in defiance of local custom), were ready for a major dockside clash. Armed with clubs, pipes, knives and hammers, Bridges' men waited in tense silence, broken only by the eerie chant of their leaders: "Stay loose, men. I say, stay loose. Don't get tight...
Harvard and Dartmouth hockey teams clash tonight in Hanover, N.H., in the inaugural game of the new Dartmouth artificial-ice hockey rink...
...Crimson victory over the Blue or a Yale victory over Harvard reclaims the worst of seasons for either team. The Crimson and Blue soccer teams will be out to reclaim their most mediocre seasons in the recent past today when they clash in a 2 p.m. game at New Haven...
Violation of Sanctuary. Next day, there was another clash between police and demonstrators, mostly students (but including some neo-Fascist toughs). This time the police used fire hoses and tear gas. They chased some of the rioters into the famous old Church of San Antonio, and in a surprising violation of the traditional right of sanctuary, continued to swing their clubs inside...
...result is a clash between college and fraternity loyalties...