Word: fistfight
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...partisan squabbling been that it almost erupted into a fistfight on the floor of the state senate. "Why don't you go back where they steal elections?" snapped Robert Jubelirer, the Republican leader, to Vincent Fumo, a Democratic committee chairman, whose reaction to the comment was so violent a colleague was forced to hold him back. "Get a psychiatrist," the Republican taunted...
...Prof. Camille Paglia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. If you need to reach her, it's probably wise to follow these instructions closely. In her speech at the K-School Thursday night, Paglia explained that she was fired from Bennington College for getting into a "fistfight" at a disco party...
...angry." After he was kicked out of Monroe Junior High for misconduct, Bonnie sent him to Boys Town for three years. But Jeff grew more rebellious. He got his first gun, a .25-cal. semiautomatic, in his mid-teens. A year later, he dodged his first bullet; after a fistfight, his opponent returned with a rifle and opened fire. That same year, he did his first drive-by. "We shot at a house, just to let them know that the games were over," he says. Although he doesn't believe he ever hit anyone, he confesses that "one time...
...that at one point Clinton exclaimed, "You mean I flew all the way across the Pacific to negotiate this?" Miyazawa ordered his bargainers not to let Clinton go away empty-handed, and they complied -- though only after arguing so fiercely among themselves that two Japanese officials got into a fistfight in the Okura Hotel at 3 a.m. Saturday...
...rest of the set didn't move much from that sublime spot; under the high-volume treatment the music got, even the ballads sounded primed for moshing. The boozy crowd, dotted with plastered forty-year-olds ready for a fistfight, obliged fiercely. Half the crowd was in the air, and those who weren't were hurling each other around the floor...