Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home in Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel...
...hectic duel between Cornell and Yale, in which the Big Red emerged victorious by a scant two feet, was a reversal of last week's Carnegie Cup race, when loser Cornell caught a crab at the finish. Yale apparently caught one this week about four strokes from the finish, and this possibly spelled the difference...
...Cornell junior varsity 150's nipped the Crimson by about two feet after a see-saw duel. Winning time was 6:47.3. The Yardling lightweights finished third behind Princeton and M.I.T., the Princeton cub eight winning in 6:44.8. The Yardling time...
...that the players show a comic enthusiasm which should have been sustained throughout the production. Director S. Heilpern Randall, with his good sense of the Shakespearean line, exploits the complete ludicrousness of the situation by treating it colloquially. In the rapid cross-fire of jokes in the garden and duel scenes, one is not at all conscious of the director's work, which seems at other times to be painfully overt...
...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...