Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Memphis, Photographer Snipes was covering a football game, which ended - as such sporting events sometimes do - in a free-for-all. Snipes tried to take pictures of the fracas. When an A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (whose team had lost) shooed him away, Snipes stood his ground. Four officers...
New Faces, Old Roles. Amidst this latest fracas in City Hall and the troubles of its latest mayor, the city of helter-skelter hills, hodgepodge houses, crawling cable cars, fogs and fish smells goes about its play and business, cynical, tolerant and urbane.
TIME'S [March 11] direct quotation of Mr. Wolcott Gibbs's opinion on the Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME...
No train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody was hit.
After a vocal first act, Sherwood fills his finale with action packed thrills and suspense. Spencer Tracy, once a vaccillating editor, joins the navy and finds himself a cook on a destroyer in the midst of a South Pacific naval fracas.