Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action confined to the game proper. After the gun sounded, one of the wildest brawls in modern memory broke out among the players. The Brown line, Meigs, Culver, and Crimson tackle Bernie O'Brien were the most prominent participants in the fray; Culver emerged with an opponent clutched in each hand...
Bagnoli suffered a fractured right hand when he fell out of bed early this week. He will dress for the game, but coach Bruce Munro does not want his goalie to risk further injury. Still, Bagnoli may get into the fray if the situation becomes desperate...
Near the end of the third period, inside Tadgh Sweeney, who played a bruising game in the sloppy weather, removed Caldwell from the fray with a crashing charge on the Penn goal...
Johnstone tallied again at 7:47 of the fourth quarter on a pass from inside Keith Lowe. Then Munro emptied the bench, sending 29 players into the fray...
Without a word, his three brothers dived into the roiling fray, now almost at the shelf's edge, and clutched the shark's body, fins and tail. Panic-stricken, the shark lunged to escape-but in the wrong direction, toward the shelf-and an incoming swell lofted the four boys and the fish in a thrashing mass into the shallows' foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching...