Word: fistfight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public Fistfight. At first, the refugee hippies were accepted with little suspicion. But a spontaneous public fistfight in April was followed by a stabbing and a firebombing, and state troopers were called in to establish an uneasy truce. Last month Taos canceled an annual two-day town festival for fear of further violence, but ugly incidents have continued nonetheless...
...their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans. Not quite as visible, but equally pervasive, is American control of Okinawan affairs. Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied territory of World...
Last week the L.B.J. completed the list with its first serious riot. The trouble was set off by a fistfight between two prisoners. When guards went in to break it up, the prisoners crashed out into the central compound containing the mess hall, administration buildings and the solitary-confinement cells (which are converted shipping containers). As the wooden buildings broke into flames, 100 M.P.s marched into the stockade with night sticks and tear gas. By the time the gas cleared, one prisoner was dead, his skull crushed, 23 were hospitalized, and 35 more needed treatment for lesser wounds. In addition...
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...been playing nice relaxed basketball too often," he said, "and now we've got to take an un-Harvard approach to the game." "To play good basketball we should be on the verge of a fistfight like we were during the last Yale game," he said...