Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young giraffes, in coltish mood, cross necks as men cross swords, and duel off their excess energy...
...Thus the duel began, with Adenauer's calculated and contemptuous dismissal of the Communist regime of East Germany...
Behind 2-0, the U.S. team showed up next day hoping to stave off defeat in the doubles. As at Sydney, Trabert and Seixas played better together than apart, but they were still not good enough. They took the first set in a tenterhooks service duel, 14-12, against Hoad and steady Rex Hartwig, who at 26 is the old man of the Aussie team. But from then on the U.S. team was usually in trouble, striving to break through service. Trabert-Seixas occasionally shook Hoad with their "crossover" signal, but they could not shake Shotmaker Hartwig...
...poor to provide much for his son's education, so Goya decamped for Madrid, twice tried and failed to get an art scholarship. In 1766, when he was 20, Goya turned up in Italy. According to legend, he was a troublesome tourist, cocky, stocky, amorous and quick to duel...
...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...