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...Take football; I mean Jackson High might as well have stayed inside the locker room and popped sits for 48 minutes than bother showing its colors on the same Tupper Field as the Marian Knights. Granted, Catholics had a rich tradition being from South Bend-Notre Dame-Golden Dome-Fightin' Irish-Fraternal Order of Polish Falcons, Nest No. 9 country; but still, that can't be the only reason...
Their official nickname is the Fightin' Blue Hens, but the University of Delaware's football teams are anything but chicken. Columbia found that out in 1955 when they invited the small-college team to Manhattan for a friendly scrimmage-and got clobbered 55-0. Two years later Colgate went to Delaware for another supposed tune-up, and the Hens scored the first eight times they had the ball...
...begun to wonder just who was left to fight the war) heckle a performance, and, although they are soon removed by others in the audience, for a few minutes there is an actual dialogue--unrehearsed, unlike the virtual monologue of the rest of the show and the rhetoric of Fightin' Jane's familiar phrases. It is a moment when the tone and the punch-line aren't predetermined...
They chanted as they went, singing softly the words of Country Joe's song, "One, two, three, four, what are we fightin' for," and ?? the old standard, "One, two, three, four, we don't want your fucking war." They waved peace signs andclenched fists at the few government employees who came to their windows, and smiling, politely explained to some of the early-rising tourists that they were "gonna...
...with his usual mix of con and conviction, plays up the disparities at every turn. "I'm not just fightin' one man,"; he preaches. "I'm fightin' a lot of men, showin' a lot of 'em here is one man they couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30 million black people. I'll win this fight because I've got a cause. Frazier has no cause. He's in it for the money alone." Caught in the crossfire, Frazier usually backs off. "I don't want to be no more than no more than what...