Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined in the fray; many of them threw rocks, tomatoes, oranges and paint bombs at pickets, workers and cops alike...
With the usual intramural league leadership at stake, two undefeated elevens will clash at Soldiers Field this afternoon when Eliot faces Kirkland at 3:15 o'clock. The once-tied Mastadons will be seriously handicapped by a host of injuries received in the fray with Leverett last week, as they seek to make the first successful defense of the campaign against the Deacons' powerful T-formation...
...Lowell-Kirkland fray, the talented arm of Jerry Glynn sparked a Deacon aerial attack, which pierced the Bell-boy pass defense almost at will. A scoring thrust via the air in the first half was stopped only when Lyne pulled a Moravec by intercepting in the end zone...
...main cause of the court's disrepute was the justices' continual and active politicking around Washington. Jimmy Byrnes had left the court to go back into the fray. Felix Frankfurter had made no bones about his coziness with the White House in the Roosevelt days. Jackson hoped for a bigger political plum. Black made speeches before the National Citizens Political Action Committee. Justice Murphy was the most indefatigable cocktail-partier in the capital (where cocktails are invariably spiced with political dope...
After things fell thick and fast--as the Alumni Bulletin remarked. "If you want publicity, come to Harvard." The CRIMSON replaced its wartime replacement on schedule and proceeded to the fray with assorted attacks on the 'Poon's sanctity, stuffed Ibis, ball-playing ability, and honesty--most of which seeped into outer regions through the press and radio...