Word: fracases
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"Hey," she rasped, "Come back here." Arrested by her voice, the younger one reluctantly turned around and followed his friend out to face the law. "If you don't pay, you can't ride," she said. The taller boy opened his shiny new Adidas jacket to display a smooth, bare...
The dissent gathered new intensity two weeks ago, on the day the 78-seat Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont was due to close under orders from Britain. To dramatize their rejection of the Anglo-Irish accord, the Rev. Ian Paisley and members of his Democratic Unionist Party refused to leave...
The U.S.-Mexico fracas could hardly have come at a worse time for the Mexican government, which already has a surfeit of problems. Burdened by a $96 billion foreign debt, the second largest in the Third World, after Brazil's, the De la Madrid government has just launched a third...
Blatt is currently sixth on the team in penalty minutes, and would be leading the squad if he had been assessed a 10 minute penalty against Princeton after a fracas with Tiger Allan Gray.
The political fracas was viewed optimistically by some foreign observers, who noted that it was still a relative novelty for Salvadorans to settle their political differences by making recourse to the rule of law. As one political analyst put it, "You don't have to go to the military for...