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(Click for frequent words.) 62 bitterly contested 57 hotly contested 56 acrimonious 55 fiercely contested 53 contentious 51 rancorous 49 bitter 49 closely contested 47 bitterly divided 47 Al Franken Norm Coleman 47 contested 46 divisive 45 increasingly acrimonious 44 protracted 44 bitter infighting 43 Hotly contested 43 bitterly disputed 43 legal wrangling 43 wrangling 43 tussle 42 toughly fought 42 hotly disputed 42 battle 42 waged 42 bitterly partisan 42 tightly contested 42 fought 42 waited tensely 42 fiercely partisan 41 Birla Lodha 41 emerged victorious 41 bitterest 41 tumultuous 41 bitter preselection 41 acrimony 40 fractious 40 dipping crosscourt forehand 40 polarized electorate 40 bitterly divisive 40 pitted 40 unpopular 39 Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi 39 keenly contested 39 hanging chad controversy 39 tensely awaited 39 tumultous 39 bloody 39 bitter internecine 38 bare knuckled 38 deeply unpopular 38 Norm Coleman Al Franken 38 Republican Lloyd Karmeier 38 sharpest bare knuckle 38 closely watched 38 bitter feud 38 tortuous 38 nail biting 38 infighting 38 controversial 38 disputed 38 pitting 38 Rival factions 38 incumbent Gruening 38 elec tion 38 nail bitingly close 38 seemingly intractable conflict 38 intraparty feud 38 blatantly rigged 38 rancorous debate 37 Lingering resentment 37 Working industriously 37 unlosable 37 skirmish 37 bitter rivalry 37 intraparty battles 37 bitter recriminations 37 coast tensely awaited 37 humiliating defeat 37 roundly defeated 37 deeply divided 37 battlelines 37 intraparty battle 37 intraparty 37 DFLer Franken 37 skirmishes 37 challenger Al Franken 37 bitter rivals 37 drawnout 37 battleground 37 soundly trounced 37 KIEV Ukraine Opposition 37 stirred passions 37 moderate Mirhossein Mousavi 37 embroiled 37 stalemates 36 multifront war 36 internecine warfare 36 Pulivendula assembly seat 36 passions aroused 36 topsy turvy 36 battles 36 tense 36 Most Sunnis boycotted 36 eleciton 36 Heated exchanges 36 Pyrrhic 36 locked horns 36 Putin protege Dmitry 36 dramatically reshaped 36 unseemly squabble 36 Bobbili Lok Sabha 36 tensest 36 intraparty warfare 36 incumbent hardliner Mahmoud 36 monthslong feud 36 squabbling 36 factional infighting 36 bruising 36 pyrrhic 36 soundly repudiated 36 Silicon Valley multimillionaire 36 heated debates 36 refought 36 Hoyer Murtha 36 semiautonomous archipelago 36 infamous hanging chads 36 bloodiest massacres 36 unseemly fracas 36 Intense lobbying 36 fenced ferociously 36 massive multihulled boats 36 partisan finger pointing 36 legal wrangle 36 feuding 36 UMP Jacques Chirac 36 grueling 36 woman chastising Barletta 35 Yushchenko Tymoshenko 35 waging 35 deep rifts 35 Low voter turnout 35 amid bitter recriminations 35 Rajoy hammering Zapatero 35 election 35 bitterly opposed 35 squabble 35 upstart Ned Lamont 35 Joe Biden reprized 35 luster dimmed 35 polarizing 35 protracted wrangling 35 staunchest backer 35 judge Wajihuddin Ahmed 35 voters resoundingly rejected 35 Sokoto governorship 35 simmering dispute 35 incumbent Joseph Kabila 35 mudslinging 35 Pyrrhic victory 35 Shutdowns summon painful 35 candidate Andrés Manuel 35 stalemate 35 likeliest outcome 35 gubernatorial 35 partial dissents 35 tighest 35 resoundingly endorsed 35 rival Begum Khaleda 35 Tonk Sawai Madhopur 35 skirmishing 35 unpopularity propelling 35 nailbiting 35 loggerheads 35 outlaw bullfighting 35 heated debate 35 stoushes 35 secretary Salman Farooqi 35 starkly contrasting 35 Toomey Sestak 35 internecine 35 resounding repudiation 35 gripping catharsis 35 tacitly conceded 35 wrangle 35 turbulent 35 bickering 35 lowest voter turnouts 35 intraparty fights 35 keenly watched 35 Daschle apologizes 35 Prosser Kloppenburg 35 hotly debated 35 hardfought 35 dispute 35 narrowly defeated 35 Betamax VHS 35 typified Cowher 35 pancreatic cancer Pavarotti 35 challenger Freman Hendrix 35 hotly contesting 35 overran Musa Qala 35 flashpoint 35 waged spirited 35 incessant bickering 34 polarized 34 swiftest conclaves 34 interparty 34 heated rivalries 34 soundly defeating 34 nursed grudges 34 polemic bumper sticker 34 unwinnable 34 Pitched battles 34 wafer thin margin 34 linguistically divided 34 Pulivendula Assembly constituency 34 monthslong 34 toughly contested 34 bloody factional 34 Ambani siblings 34 ally Yulia Tymoshenko 34 Intraparty 34 tempestuous 34 Yeltsin disbanded 34 internecine battles 34 backbench rebellions 34 differed sharply 34 widespread voter apathy 34 battlegrounds 34 former dictator Efrain 34 Meskwaki tribal 34 emerged triumphant 34 longrunning 34 Granholm DeVos 34 Karsenty appealed 34 southerners embittered 34 jockeying 34 Svetlana Kustova 34 jubilant celebrations 34 rearguing 34 unusual bedfellow 34 victorious 34 internecine feuding 34 politically fraught 34 Juarez drug cartels 34 congratulated Yanukovich 34 fiercely debated 34 bitterest rivals 34 Eyadema Gnassingbe 34 heightened sectarian tensions 34 politically dicey 34 newcomer Ned Lamont 34 deadlocked 34 feud 34 scarcely contested 34 titanic struggle 34 embittering 34 bitterly polarized 34 vitriolic 34 ideological divide 34 bloodiest battlegrounds 34 lingering animosities 34 overturning Yanukovych 34 defeating Tusk 33 governorship flag bearer 33 jeers hurled 33 Yanukovych Tymoshenko 33 Democracy Derailed Initiative 33 mud slinging 33 Edmund Muskie Hubert Humphrey 33 latest salvo 33 ill tempered 33 presidential 33 nail biting climax 33 unseated incumbent 33 rival Yellow Shirts 33 Candidates spar 33 Stalinist dictator Nicolae 33 deadly skirmishes 33 frontrunner Marco Rubio 33 Rejected absentee ballots 33 Socialist Lionel Jospin 33 seeing pluses minuses 33 factional bloodletting 33 lamented partisan bickering 33 showdowns 33 Kremlin clans 33 stridently opposed 33 Katrin Radmacher 33 monthslong impasse 33 challenger Ayad Allawi 33 unfairly skewed 33 hopefuls spar 33 crosstown rival Chanel 33 partisan recriminations 33 tussles 33 Bud Light beers 33 chaotic 33 nail biting finale 33 incumbent Suzi Oppenheimer 33 Mud slinging 33 conclave implying 33 remaining unaligned superdelegates 33 mutual recriminations 33 withstanding comrade 33 Democrat Christine Gregoire 33 Scarborough Shoal claimed 33 Climaxing 33 electon 33 ideologically divided 33 Bukit Gantang parliamentary 33 Clan rivalries 33 tense standoffs 33 Republican Sharron Angle 33 intraparty squabble 33 hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad 33 Cape Verde PAIGC 33 Republican Norm Coleman 33 procedural maneuvering 33 Adamov extradition eventually 33 stormy 33 Sinaloa drug cartels 33 heatedly debated 33 Party LeAlan Jones 33 largest hog slaughterhouse 33 incumbent Traian Basescu 33 unseemly spat 33 warring 33 testy 33 oligarchic clans 33 bloodiest 33 Resentment lingers 33 tightest 33 internecine fighting 33 telegenic Palin 33 strongman Andry Rajoelina 33 Pollster Floyd Ciruli 33 divided 33 exchanged routine unpleasantries 33 Horace Lindrum 33 simmering feud 33 rerun governorship 33 implacable foes 33 inconclusive 33 Kaohsiung mayoral 33 internecine struggles 33 shifting allegiances 33 highly politicized 33 Recount confirms 33 daughter Ruthana 33 Mr. Cavala manages 33 TOO' mee 33 intraparty bickering 33 Chamundeshwari Assembly 33 Cazayoux Jenkins 33 fierce gunbattles 33 deputy Gibson Sibanda 33 SBY JK 33 Hamirpur Lok Sabha 33 navy INS Tabar 33 faired poorly 33 Nagorno Karabakh enclave 33 intraparty disputes 33 vastly outspending 33 recriminations 33 ODM Raila Odinga 33 wranglings 33 Raila Odinga Luo 33 feuds 33 internecine squabbling 33 versus Goliath 33 humble ketchup packet 33 Jeffords defection gave 33 momentous 33 squabbles 33 titanic battle 33 President Kibaki PNU 32 Heated confrontations 32 yearslong battle 32 stinging setback 32 Behcet syndrome rare 32 sparred 32 flagbearership slot 32 took dueling oaths 32 incumbent Abel Maldonado 32 resounding rejection 32 cobble together coalition 32 bloody skirmishes 32 bare knuckles brawl 32 Hamas violently wrested 32 defining moment 32 Biggert N 32 wealthiest tycoons 32 fiercest 32 bickered 32 wills 32 predecessors loathed 32 NLD boycotted 32 crossing swords 32 Gandhinagar Lok Sabha 32 Zetas cartels 32 chief Gen. Sarath 32 finely poised 32 Pedro Almodovar Ang Lee 32 MDC Morgan Tsvangirai 32 casino operator Sociedade 32 remarkable turnabout 32 legislative logjams 32 waged yearslong 32 bitter divorce 32 assiduously courted 32 dueling 32 unseat Djou 32 Stirring memories 32 Tensions flared anew 32 fierce 32 kissathon organizers claim 32 vied 32 waged fierce 32 disastrous 32 lingering resentments 32 blond divas 32 Capping tumultuous 32 Sandinista dissident Edmundo Jarquin 32 intractable conflicts 32 Firozabad Lok Sabha 32 Ramjanmbhoomi Babri Masjid 32 dictator Efrain Rios Montt 32 Brisk polling 32 launched furious counterassault 32 sided 32 wrested control 32 mopping slogging bill 32 pitted Ratsiraka 32 forgone conclusion 32 nail biter 32 worsen sectarian tensions 32 divorced Brian Blosil 32 Mordechai Aviv 32 confront Spassky 32 prodigious fund raiser 32 relentlessly assailed 32 Datuk Arif 32 nationalist Tomislav Nikolic 32 Battlelines drawn 32 contesting 32 bloody internecine 32 Monarchs excepted 32 legal wranglings 32 energize dispirited 32 Republican Brian Bilbray 32 filibuster proof margin 32 CHRONOLOGY Key events 32 stoutly defending 32 Ross Perot siphoned 32 fiercest battles 32 DFLer Al Franken 32 Rehnquist presided 32 DeGette Y 32 stateā 32 Malvan 32 pregnant chad 32 theologically conservative breakaway 32 ideologically compatible 32 campaigning 32 candidate Carl Romanelli 32 governership 32 stinging repudiation 32 factional brawling 32 unwinable 32 bloodiest trench warfare 32 rival MGA Entertainment 32 Gujjar Meena 32 vacant WBO lightweight 32 Mount Soledad cross 32 lawyer Byron Georgiou 32 Harbhajan Singh Andrew Symonds 32 brothers Mukesh 32 Acrimony 32 trigger pyroclastic flows 32 Kurds semiautonomous 32 Businessman Herman Cain 32 independents caucusing 32 cliff hanger 32 hugely unpopular 32 gun toting hoodlums 32 spokeswoman Marion Steinfels 32 Wang Din shin 32 squabbling factions 32 bitter recrimination 32 Pfizer Lipitor patent 32 Geoana Social 32 bloody gunbattles 32 cement humanitarianism 32 maker MGA Entertainment 32 internecine conflict 32 factional feuds 32 blatant gerrymandering 32 nonincumbents 32 politician Segolene Royal 32 fathered Dannielynn 32 marital breakups 32 Permatang Pauh constituency 32 VHS Betamax battle 32 ATHENS Greece Greeks 32 Koreas exchanged gunfire 32 Altmire Y 32 midterm election 32 Bertarelli biotech 32 bloodless putsch 32 disputed Himalayan 32 violently wrested control 32 tug 32 Democrat Barbara McIlvaine 32 foe Boris Berezovsky 32 millionaire Ned Lamont 32 simmering discontent 32 Oberweis spawned 32 freest fairest 32 Ramzi Abadou 32 Jacksonian Democracy 32 testy exchanges 32 hanging chad debacle 32 Bilirakis Y 32 cemented schism 32 Mangal Prabhat Lodha 32 thrilling 32 lambasting Mousavi 32 legalized medicinal marijuana 32 Fierce gunbattles 32 Gordon Maag 32 violent clashes 32 renamed Iwoto 32 Fierce infighting 32 leftist Andrés Manuel 32 uneasy detente 32 mujahedin factions 32 Paracel Islands disputed 32 hasty retreat bowing 32 Reformists denounced 32 divisive intraparty 32 Debra Bernes 32 Qatari mediated 32 openly gay nonincumbent 32 enduring linguistic spats 32 simmering tensions 32 assiduously courting 31 bit Holyfield ear 31 Bilirakis N 31 wrenching 31 Democrat Betty Castor 31 Bin Hammam withdraws 31 rancor 31 independents Carole Keeton 31 Bilbray N 31 Democrats 31 countercharges 31 unedifying 31 analyst Wojciech Jablonski 31 Aderholt Y 31 unabashed polygamist 31 Partisan wrangling 31 Midterm elections 31 Guhagar 31 confound pollsters 31 Scott Rynecki 31 Bharthana 31 taluka panchayats 31 hardliner Ahmadinejad 31 CBZ Premiership 31 carefully orchestrated 31 nerve shredding 31 unpredictable multicandidate race 31 Unequivocal opposition 31 politically polarized 31 drastically reshaped 31 Chamundeshwari constituency 31 arch foes 31 duked 31 Ratsiraka fled 31 Democrat Alex Sink 31 Demcrats 31 hotting 31 Violence mars 31 downticket 31 scandals dogging 31 matrimonial discord 31 spectacularly backfired 31 Salumber 31 Mike Vaska 31 struggle 31 Demoratic 31 SCENARIOS Possible outcomes 31 repressive dictators 31 crowning glory 31 Miers withdraws 31 fiercely opposed 31 fiercest battlegrounds 31 staffer Dan Maffei 31 declared unilateral ceasefires 31 partisan fingerpointing 31 heated 31 foregone conclusion 31 ardently courted 31 nationalist Radicals 31 eventual victor 31 elec tions 31 creditable goalless draw 31 Mukundapuram 31 Sibu parliamentary 31 pitted Kibaki Kikuyu 31 Yukos Sibneft merger 31 Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema 31 clashing 31 intraparty squabbles 31 head tohead 31 CCAGW PAC mission 31 mere formality 31 Cold War denouement 31 SNP Alex Salmond 31 Fierce battles 31 ALP preselection 31 semi autonomous Zanzibar 31 challenger Andrew Romanoff 31 anticlimactic 31 bare knuckles 31 suitor Sterlite Industries 31 vaunted eloquence 31 cliffhanger 31 painstakingly dissected 31 enmeshed 31 Glenrothes byelection 31 lengthiest 31 victor 31 Tempers boil 31 Democracts 31 ethnically tinged 31 Mark Rutte VVD 31 Kadir Rana 31 vote rigging 31 challenger Joanne Kloppenburg 31 Verbal sparring 31 disarray 31 Insults abound 31 yachting showpiece 31 hopelessly stalemated 31 vying 31 Odinga Luo 31 Capping 31 blond braid 31 Clashes mar 31 Institutional Revolutionary 31 Pulivendula assembly 31 hanging chad 31 hotly contested battlegrounds 31 convoluted 31 RUSSIA GEORGIA WAR 31 stalemated 31 tossup 31 Malik Saidullayev 31 Democrat Kay Hagan 31 messy 31 effectively sidetracking 31 Soraba 31 Frenchtown Missoula 31 Catholic UDEUR 31 Stoppard epic 31 VHS Betamax 31 Bengali Communists 31 Nashwa Taher 31 tussling 31 Osby Davis 31 televised debates 31 tense standoff 31 redrew congressional 31 bitterest foes 31 RELDA 31 Balnatah 31 Ferozabad Lok Sabha 31 Democrat Dannel Malloy 31 Groupo Mexico 31 acrimonious divorce 31 limbo 31 Gilles Duceppe Bloc Quebecois 31 flawless netminding 31 Ingabire Hutu returned 31 FIA FOTA 31 Boulkheir 31 predictably livid 31 trounced Abbas Fatah 31 JILL COLGAN 31 governorship rerun 31 Evenly split 31 tactic backfired 31 contentiousness 31 lopsided 31 uneasy cohabitation 31 #/#-month impasse 31 resoundingly rejecting 31 rancorous partisanship 31 incumbent Ken Livingstone 31 stark contrasts 31 People Organisation SWAPO 31 fruitless 31 repeated deadlocks 31 Alp Yalman 31 duking 31 tussled 31 Chafee Laffey 31 Uncounted ballots 31 slimmest margin 31 tempestuous relationship 31 electric Aga cooker 31 Lenne Triangle 31 Rhetoric heats 31 naval skirmish 31 factional feuding 31 Blumenauer Y 31 midterm elections 31 Factional 31 mainland Tanganyika 31 encroaching Soviets 31 Wild Card berths 31 dueling lawsuits 31 inflamed tempers 31 aldermanic races 31 landmark 31 comedy Bashardost 31 slim reeds 31 fought tenaciously 31 maintain equi distance 31 delicately poised 31 debates 31 heavily gerrymandered 31 marred 31 electoral battlegrounds 31 titanic tussle 31 diplomatic expulsions 31 spokesman Alvi Kerimov 31 brutal scorched earth 31 Chafee Whitehouse 31 party powerbroker Ichiro 31 wife Elouise Hagen 31 nerve jangling 31 Narrowly trailing 31 incumbent Casey Cagle 31 Byelections 31 Cod Wars 31 amid welter 30 bloodiest battlefields 30 challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg 30 president Remy Beauregard 30 emir dissolved parliament 30 Democrat Ed Perlmutter 30 assembly bypoll 30 resubmitted Bolton 30 perennial pinstriped 30 lieutentant governor 30 steeling themselves 30 iPad doohickeys 30 chaotic scenes 30 stopping Clifford Etienne 30 smoothest confirmations 30 bin Ebrahim 30 vehement objections 30 slanging matches 30 tensions simmered 30 cleared procedural hurdle 30 Mangudadatus blamed 30 Blairite Brownite 30 candidate Luc Jochimsen 30 Dennis Kucinich longshot 30 Hosni Mubarak ouster 30 NDC flagbearership 30 stalement 30 outlawed fox hunting 30 Patricio Alywin whose 30 philosophical disagreements 30 Specter Sestak 30 simmering tension 30 SIMON Crean 30 clashed 30 sponsor Yariv Levin 30 bitter intraparty 30 ruinous 30 Broun N 30 ethnically divided Bosnia 30 arch rivals 30 Televised debates 30 downballot 30 emotionally draining 30 jailed polygamous sect 30 LONG RUNNING 30 Striker Ziad Jaziri 30 riven 30 challenger Jon Runyan 30 presidentials 30 squabbled 30 factional squabbles 30 emir Sheik Sabah 30 verbal fisticuffs 30 Dueling demonstrations 30 Nathaniel Persily 30 seat unicameral parliament 30 Jaimie crumpled 30 diplomatic spat 30 9th Circuit reinstating 30 vacant WBC featherweight 30 quorum busting 30 razor thin 30 Ethiopian Deriba Merga 30 Democrat Al Gore 30 unbridgeable gap 30 Showdown looms 30 internecine feud 30 sour aftertaste 30 narrowest margin 30 risked reigniting 30 hung parliaments 30 southern Kurils 30 partisan squabbling 30 Simmering resentment 30 flip flopper label 30 snake bitten Cleveland Browns 30 Jonestown tragedy 30 waged vigorous 30 indelible scar 30 award delegates proportionally 30 romance Atonement dominated 30 outgoing Chancellor Gerhard 30 emerges victorious 30 spat 30 Sectarian violence exploded 30 emerge victorious 30 magisterial recount 30 unresolved 30 cruiser HMAS Sydney 30 Argentines trudged 30 abject capitulation 30 Moussa Arafat brushed aside 30 alternately conciliatory 30 Bilbray Y 30 Highways repaved 30 factional disputes 30 Voronin Communists 30 hotly contested mayoral 30 triumphed 30 costliest 30 donnybrook 30 deadly artillery duels 30 Yellow Shirts occupied 30 nail biter befitting 30 attorney Joseph Mannis 30 unabashed liberal 30 skeptic True Finns 30 utter bedlam 30 unpopularity 30 sour taste 30 revered Shiite shrines 30 factional warfare 30 feuding drug cartels 30 constitutional amendments guaranteeing 30 islandwide referendum 30 conservatives CDU CSU 30 actress Daria Halprin 30 insurmountable hurdle 30 Acrimonious 30 bare knuckle brawl 30 entrenched incumbents 30 Parmjit Singh Gill 30 rival Edouard Balladur 30 Democrat Chellie Pingree 30 voter disenchantment 30 Rep. Darlene Antonino 30 Eastern Pequots 30 Jack Panella 30 nuke reactor meltdowns 30 catapulted Mousavi 30 royalist establishment 30 populist firebrand 30 rivetting 30 Paucatuck Eastern Pequots 30 dreaded wooden spoon 30 locking horns 30 incumbent Peg Lautenschlager 30 Birkhead paternity 30 Oemrawsingh 30 Democratically aligned 30 Khaleda alternated 30 Telenor Alfa 30 monarchy abolished 30 pipped 30 Nambariin Enkhbayar 30 saga 30 Clearwater FL LifeNews.com 30 Simmering tensions 30 Alperons 30 Visitante beating 30 offered angry denouncements 30 evenly divided 30 bloody partition 30 voter referendums 30 Sestak Toomey race 30 Cypriots obliged 30 believe Yettaw intrusion 30 Annette Ziegler 30 Betty Tamposi 30 Kannur Ernakulam 30 Assembly bypolls 30 legal wrangles 30 annulled 30 furious 30 rival Alpha Conde 30 Rohru constituency 30 fratricidal 30 fiery orators 30 Saddam Arabization 30 yuletide preparations 30 Bharatya Janata Party 30 stoush 30 staunchly opposed 30 Vickers outlasts 30 lord mayoralty 30 clashes 30 Primer Confronting Iraq 30 cola wars 30 Kikuyu tribe Kenya 30 Labour backbench revolt 30 Govindarajanagar 30 counteroffensive Bernanke 30 partisan squabbles 30 fractious coalitions 30 Gillibrand DioGuardi 30 openly feuded 30 internecine wars 30 Liberal preselection 30 unfavorability rating 30 wildly unpopular 30 Moscow Dubrovka theater 30 institutional navel gazing 30 Tycoon mistress 30 staunchly oppose 30 Paracel island chains 30 ideologically polarized 30 disputes 30 lengthy 30 Raucous celebrations 30 hotly disputing 30 dull goalless draw 30 Heated rhetoric 30 proceeded fitfully 30 hastened Haig 30 Democrat Hubert Vo 30 Pyrrhic victories 30 torpedoed 30 Shikaripura 30 centrist Lib Dems 30 Betamax videotape standard 30 Keisler oversaw 30 Lieutenant Governor Lucy Baxley 30 climbdowns 30 include lithographs portraits 30 Voter discontent 30 Tain constituency 30 humiliating defeats 30 transfer sagas 30 legislator Gabrielle Giffords 30 commissioner Steve Poizner 30 Aderholt N 30 Comp Lite 30 Uttarakhand Kranti Dal 30 yellow shirted PAD 30 Shi'ites oppressed 30 Pollsters predict 30 victors 30 noble Autobots 30 RCom MTN 30 always quotable McCourt 30 spiraling sectarian bloodshed 30 pitting Diallo Peul 30 aldermanic runoffs 30 vs. Goliath 30 nature Steinbrenner mellowed 30 Labour Oona King 30 SJR2 30 highly publicized 30 postelection 30 Raila Ruto 30 Pre emptive pardons 30 Hubert Humphrey Walter Mondale 30 CPOD Nov. 30 countercoups 30 Kinkizi West 29 turkeys shellacking 29 maneuvering 29 onesided 29 dynastic ambitions 29 seesaw battle 29 soundly defeated