Word: slugfest
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COLUMBIA 28, CORNELL 24--Cornell looked impressive in its 41-7 rout of Yale last week. Then again, the Quincy House football team would look impressive against Yale. The loser of this slugfest is virtually assured of a seventh-place finish in the Ivy League. The winner will be New York State Ivy Champion I'll give that honor to the City...
...have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest finale of Act I, Gaetano swings both parts of a refrigerator door at Hud, knocks him cold, puts him in a straitjacket and packs him off to the dry-out sanitarium...
...Falklands, Argentine forces used their small but sophisticated electronic arsenal--most notably, the Exocet missile with its 45-mile range--to make England's victory a more narrow one than Israel's. Observers noted that the Falklands war was an old-style "slugfest," in which the British relied on sheer determination; but by contrast, Israel relied on its electronic weapons. Retired British Air Vice-Admiral Stewart Menaul summarized the difference between the conflicts: "We fought yesterday's war. The Israelis fought tomorrow...
Larson entered late in the opening slugfest, after the visitors had run up a 6-3 margin. The Eagles had scored four runs in the first three innings off starter and eventual winner Jim Curtin, but Harvard bats struck the biggest blows in the fifth inning. A pair of two-run homers by Donnie Allard and Chris Schindler put the Crimson up for good, and Ed Farrell added another two-run blast on the sixth...
FROM A DISTANCE, the federal budget process may appear to be a slugfest of giants: Mr. Liberal clouts Mr. Conservative with open-ended "investments in humanity;" Mr. C counters with "sensible spending" and "sustained safety nets." This year, as any guy who reads the headlines will tell you, the Right is whipping the Left because "the mood of the nation is changing." All of it sounds familiar...