Word: fistfights
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Destiny Johnson was just finishing lunch when she noticed the fistfight breaking out in a corner of Locke High School's grassy quad area. It's not uncommon to see brawls at the South Los Angeles school - long known as one of L.A.'s most troubled - but this one was different, quickly escalating into a roving melee involving, by some accounts, 600 students, including bystanders. Fleeing toward her 5th-period English class, "I saw this stampede of kids rushing at me," says Johnson, 18. "It was the scariest thing I had seen here...
...Neither campaign releases its internal tallies of superdelegates, but since Super Tuesday, Obama has been cutting into Clinton's once formidable lead. The latest estimate by CNN suggests her edge is now only 238 to 199. "When you look at the numbers, this is a fistfight," says a Clinton strategist. "It is going to be a much more rugged fight, because her lifeline is these uncommitted delegates, and they can be shaky sometimes." Obama's team continues to push the case that the supers ought to follow the lead of the pledged delegates for the sake of party unity...
...been preaching discipline and self-control to his players throughout the season, and on Saturday night against No. 16 Quinnipiac at Bright Hockey center, his advice proved crucial in a 4-1 win for the Crimson men.In a game that easily could have devolved into an extended fistfight, Harvard’s players matched the Bobcats’ aggression, but avoided needless penalties in a spectacular display of high-scoring offense and stifling defense.“The gloves came up high a few times but we talked about it last night after the game when we took...
...still deeply contentious. The maritime border between the two countries is contested - the North and South Korean navies have skirmished several times in the region, most recently in 2002 - and enmity flared anew last month when naval attachés from the two sides almost got into a fistfight during initial discussions about the proposed...
...fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels - plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel revolutionaries - like Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla - see plant power as a way to break America's dependence on foreign oil, and produce auto fuel that doesn't kill the climate. Opponents dismiss biofuels - most of which are currently distilled from crops like corn and sugar cane - as a blind alley, one that drives up food prices without saving the earth...