Word: fistfighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such comments, barbed enough to provoke a fistfight with other managers, roll off Weaver. He and his players yell at each other so much that the dugout sounds like a session of primal scream therapy, but the anger quickly passes...
...millionaires today. They put on a spectacular show. In the Daytona 500 last February, Yarborough and Donnie Allison bumped fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie and I talked about the situation, about bird hunting, deer hunting, and the two good coon dogs I got. It's over and done with...
...industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish coffee is in short supply; replacements are tea and Nescafe. At a recent session of parliament, a fistfight broke out on the floor after an opposition deputy complained that "the streets are full of black market cigarettes"−to which the Customs Minister snapped back, "You probably have some in your pockets...
...happy. Unlike last season, Los Angeles struggled through the early months, swapping the lead with the Cincinnati Reds, then falling behind the San Francisco Giants. It wasn't until the last week of August that the Dodgers entered first place to stay, and that after an air-clearing fistfight in the clubhouse between Top Pitcher and Resident Flake Don Sutton and the Dodgers' Mr. Clean, First Baseman Steve Garvey...
...were 92 officially scheduled shows, up to ten a day for ten days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...