Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teams indulge in this sort of mayhem? "To bother me," Williams said simply. A defender will hold Williams to keep him from getting in to rebound, elbow around him to get at a guard about to shoot, or grab him for balance when a player cuts behind the high post. Some teams are rough for roughness' sake. "B.C. was trying to push me off the line--period," Williams said. "The ref kept saying, 'Take it easy, take it easy.' I kept saying, 'Don't take it easy, call a foul...
...life-long attempts were embarrassing to Loeb, too, when World War I broke out, for masses of men seemed to be mechanically controlled forced as if by tropisms to march into battle. Here was mechanism leading men into massacre and mayhem...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar...
...murder to mayhem, as it were, shortly after the good Dean's exposure of sex at Harvard, the Lampoon brought out a special but phony addition of the HARVARD CRIMSON with headlines announcing that women were to be banned from the Harvard rooms...
...item in Walter Winchell's column one day last June sounded genuinely solicitous. "Sugar Ray Robinson and gambler-shylocks are at war," it read. "Buddies rushed out of Harlem bars and saved him from planned mayhem. This man may be slain, Mr. Police Commissioner . . ." But for at least one Winchell reader the solicitude was less than welcome. Last week onetime World Welterweight and Middleweight Champion Robinson, now a slow-motion 44, sued Columnist Winchell and his employers, Hearst Consolidated Publications...