Word: flailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poor and indigent scholars." And last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known as a "bully." Punching is forbidden, but applying "steady pressure" with one's fist upon a face is warmly encouraged. The poet Shelley was once used as a ball. No goal has been scored since before World...