Word: fisticuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated for wounds contracted from being hit by, sitting on, falling on, tripping on, flasks. Massachusetts General Hospital ran out of headache powders...
Second-rate fish, also used for training, come from the aquariums of about 1,000 amateur breeders in Siam. Trainer fish constantly have their bodies mutilated as do U. S. fisticuff trainers. Their advantage over their U. S. equivalents: they can regenerate broken parts...