Even Sinatra, Ol' Blue Eyes himself, seemed to improve with age and got in fewer fistfights to boot.

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A. Their battle to woo her is therefore a real battle, complete with tranquillizer darts and restaurant-clearing fistfights.

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The Spurs could hold on to that title-- barring any fistfights at half-court.

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Passengers would be demanding to be moved, would ask flight attendants to referee disputes, would probably engage in fistfights.

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Growing up in Fall River, a poor city in southern Massachusetts, he got into fistfights on his way to Catholic school.

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Maybe if these kids saw some kind of decent future for themselves, instead of shootings, there would just be fistfights, some angry words exchanged.

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On the downside, competition is so fierce that fistfights sometimes break out between contrade, and Il Palio jockeys often live in fear from rival contrade.

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He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.

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The fistfights have been costly.

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