Word: clawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other kinds of attacks: "I'm pretty sure that I am going to attract a great deal of flak, particularly in the States, for even suggesting there is anything to put in the Palestinian balance. But I would wish to have it remembered of me, before they claw me apart, that in the nine novels that preceded this book, I think in six of them I wrote with unqualified sympathy about Jews. And if any non-Jew has the right to suggest that Israel is getting out of hand, I propose that I have earned that right...
...Harvard women's volleyball team began its second varsity season in style last night as it rebounded from a two-game deficit to claw the Wheaton Lions...
...required contestants to dogtrot through the intricacies of a croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival Game almost instantly. There would be a forested tract of about 100 acres and up to twelve competitors stalking...
...began as a merely improvisational marauding, a restlessness of tooth and claw: Magyars drifting toward new grazing lands. Vikings blowing down on the north wind to their plunder. Since attack justifies defense, almost everyone came rapidly to participate. War, both waged and endured, got to look like the human condition, The merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast...
Last night, before a packed, house of 4100 chicken-head-biting, chicken-claw-scratching Cornell fans at the hockey dungeon called Lynah Rink, the Crimson iceman, 5-4 in overtime, to even their ECAC record at 7-3-2 and keep their playoff chances alive. The win is Harvard's first in Ithaca since...