Word: fraying
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...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...
Next day the Virgin rolled deeper into the Red Belt. But the tocsin had sounded. When she came to Thiais, the proletarians were gathered, several thousand strong. For Marx and Mary, fists flew, clubs thudded. Again police broke up the fray. Out of the melee they yanked six Communists, three seminarists and one priest to spend the night in jail...
...scientists had yet adjusted themselves to this overwhelming change. Before the bomb, few of them had taken the slightest interest in politics. Now they were deeply, and unhappily, in the fray...