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“What they’re saying to the court is, ‘We need to be able to violate the law and shoot these people indiscriminately or else it’s gonna be a melee.’

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To avoid the melee on the cables, five climbers sought shelter in a cramped granite cave at the summit.

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The incident happened shortly after the full-time whistle of the match on 31 August, following a melee involving both sets of players and sparked by the Uruguayan.

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He was one of three people who died that day during the Chicano Moratorium, a rally against the Vietnam War that out-of-control cops turned into a melee.

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Meeting men is nice, but that is eclipsed by these other concerns and ambitions, as many former sorority girls have pointed out in the recent social media melee.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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