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...Cigarettes never interfere with my fightin' trim," said baseball great Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees in a 1934 Camel advertisement. But the age when sports stars and doctors championed their favorite brand of cigarettes in public is over, according to a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

Federalism is the most boring word in the American political lexicon. Around the world, however, it's a fightin' word. Some countries will break, some blood will flow over it. From Kashmir to Quebec, the world is seething with secessionists who have had enough of the federations to which history and colonial masters have assigned them. They want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Blest Be the Ties That Bind | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...transatlantic range war has got out of hand, but so far no one is budging on the beef issue. The E.C. insists that no compromise is possible unless the U.S. accepts the hormone ban. And from the St. Paul stockyards to the vast feedlots of the Southwest, them's fightin' words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Beef over Hormones? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

According to the student who was punished forbreaking the window, he and his three companionshurled the oranges with a slingshot from the NorthHouse breezeway following a drunken snowball fightin the Quad...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Punished for Racial Slur | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...remember that huge fight in '65," Pauly asked Balcony Section 26. "It lasted after the game was over. Talk about action. Everybody was fightin' in the street, and on the bus, and of course over at McFinney's. Finally broke it up, since it was stopping traffic...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: Where's the Mayor When Ya Need Him? | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

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