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...fight. Cockfighters are specially bred roosters trained from birth in the ancient arts of war and fed on carefully concocted diets. The inch-long, hard spurs on each rooster's legs become dangerous weapons when the bird jumps through the air, furiously beating his wings and trying to stab his opponent...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Cock-Fighting in the Philippines | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Cornell comes into Bright Center February 12 to take a stab at the first-place Crimson. No fish or chickens are allowed...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Big Red is Red Hot | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...soldier was treated for a minor stab wound, the army, reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Toll in Gaza Strip Hits 32 in Five Weeks | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

Seaver took a stab at holding on last summer by playing in the minors, and lately Jackson has been waffling on his announced plans to leave. They are 43 and 41 years old, respectively. "The compulsion to play this game is something," Niekro says. "I don't know how many letters I've got over the years, how many strangers have dropped by my hotel, how many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Goodbye to Glory | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

When paramedics answered an emergency call at the farm of James and Julie Schnick in the south Missouri hamlet of Elkland (pop. 200), they found James Schnick rolling on the floor and wailing in pain from a gunshot and stab wounds. He had spotted an unknown intruder in the house and fatally stabbed him after a ferocious struggle, he told Webster County Sheriff Eugene Fraker. In the bedroom Schnick's wife lay dead, shot twice in the head. The mysterious intruder, who was sprawled dead in the hallway, a .22-cal. pistol clutched in his hand, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auguries Of Innocence | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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