Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lodge-Kennedy Senatorial duel is far closer and disconcertingly confusing. Taftites are supporting Kennedy, Deverites in many places (Cambridge for example) are tacitly behind Lodge, and Massachusetts' sizeable independent vote is split asunder. The feeling of the Taftites toward Lodge is expressed in a letter to former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy from T. Walter Taylor, director of Independents for Kennedy, saying "after what he did to Senator Taft, we feel he has forfeited all rights to expect right-thinking people to support him this fall in returning to office." But the attack on Lodge's Eisenhower support is a rationalization...
Back in the U.S. in 1942, Scott wrote two books in quick succession, Behind the Urals and Duel for Europe. Later he became TIME'S wartime correspondent in Stockholm, and first postwar chief of the Berlin Bureau. He has also written a third book, Europe In Revolution, and is currently working on a book on political warfare...
Action claimed him from 17 to 20, when he zipped through engineering courses at the University of Vienna, joined a fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
...Santa Monica, Cinemactress Teresa (Something to Live For) Wright, 32, decided she had had enough "grievous mental suffering," filed divorce papers against Novelist-Scriptwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, 49, and asked for custody of their two children...
Turncoat. In Memphis. Wesley Green, 37, slightly wounded his old friend. Clarence Bentley. 29. in a duel with shotguns at 15 paces, explained to police: "All his life Clarence agreed that passenger cars could go faster than trucks. Then today he changed his mind...