He smiled goofily and slugged back the remains of his beer: "Made in France!" © Andrew Hussey The French Intifada by Andrew Hussey, is published by Granta on 6 March, £25.
Gaza's subsequent deterioration, as Palestinian clans, armed gangs and political factions slugged it out, convinced Israelis that the PA under Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, would never be able to impose the order required to uphold its end of a peace deal.
Scientists also slugged it out, as rival schools sought to come up with a cure for phylloxera.
He recalled great days of the 1970s and 1980s, when parliamentarians such as Enoch Powell and Michael Foot slugged it out with ministers across the floor of the House.
The balance between caveat emptor and caveat vendor would have to be slugged out in the courts, as is now happening with tobacco.
The pilot, a player for the New York Yankees baseball team, and his flight instructor were killed.In the only television debate in the California governor's race, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the incumbent, slugged it out with Phil Angelides, his Democratic opponent.
Net immigration actually rose, to 242,000, in the 12 months to September 2010.Still, the home secretary, Theresa May, has gamely slugged away, tightening the rules first for workers and then for students.
It was a clear sign that the days when consoles slugged it out solely on the basis of graphical-processing power are well and truly over.
IN THE West Yorkshire town of Wakefield, where the 15th-century Wars of the Roses were slugged out, a quieter revolution is under way.
As "Sue" herself lay splintered in disparate boxes housed miles away various factions slugged it out for ownership of a 65 million-year-old carcass.
He wasn't lying low until rival gangs of henchmen slugged it out.
