Word: fistfight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore the honor of Abilene's South Side through a classic two-hour fistfight against Wesley Merrifield, champion of the more prosperous North Side. The fight ended in a draw. "Ike," gasped Wes, "I can't lick you." "Well, Wes," said Ike grimly, "I haven't licked...
...board of a big corporation is a pretty good sign that somewhere the gears are clashing. Not so with Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Corp.-or so said resigning Board Chairman Bernard Gimbel last week when he and his old friend and fellow director, James Dougan Norris, fistfight promoter extraordinary, parted financial company...
...Murphy's comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard...