Word: fracases
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Opposition to Thatcher's policies had been growing steadily-until the Labor Party conference. Before, every major poll showed Labor leading the Tories by ten to eleven points. Afterward, a Gallup poll indicated Labor's lead had dropped to three points in reaction to the bitter fracas. Tory...
A diplomatic fracas is raised by Paris' nuclear aid to Baghdad
No one at New York's Saratoga race track made much of it at first, what with the fracas over the sudden withdrawal of Derby Winner Genuine Risk from the week's big race. But gradually word slipped out that another star was present. Riding an uninspiring gelding...
To ensure that the trial does not become a spectacle, Presiding Judge James Long ordered special security measures. Since the first day's fracas, however, no further violence has occurred at the trial, which last week was at the jury-selection stage. The trial is expected to last three...
The headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and...