Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The customer-protecting ruling followed a Thanksgiving Day bar-room fracas in which a South Boston longshoreman claimed he was beaten over the head with a baseball bat. The longshoreman, Joseph Fratolillo, spent 11 days unconscious in City Hospital with a fractured skull.
This spiteful fracas would only deepen the skepticism with which most Germans regard parliamentary government. But the incident could not obscure the fact that the Paris and Bonn agreements had added greatly to the prestige of the West German Republic, just three months old. For his critics who said he...
Many players were bumped up in the Brown fracas, but at this point Art Valpey is only willing to commit himself on the status of two men: John White and Dan Cass join Charlie Walsh as definitely ineligible to face the Elis. The doctors will release word on the other...
Italian politics have quieted down since the critical elections last year, but the marks of the fracas are everywhere. The Communists apparently cornered the nation's white paint supply--every available wall space is still daubed with "Viva Il Partito Communisto" and the slogan "Peace, Work, and Liberty." ECA, which...
The move came less that two weeks after Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 received a reply to his letter to Dartmouth concerning last year's half-time fracas.