Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot experience comes over the air from tape-recorded documentaries made under fire by combat correspondents of the U.S. armed forces. Most of them have been made by young (39) Lieut. Colonel Wes McPheron. With McPheron, armchair listeners have crouched in a forward observation post watching a tank-artillery duel and stood helpless in an aid station listening to the moans of a soldier crippled by a mortar burst. Last month they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged...
...other House baseball game yesterday, Steve Stamatopulos of Lowell and Ken Wells of Winthrop fought a pitchers duel...
Winfield Scott first attracted public attention as a major general when he strongly criticized General Andrew Jackson. The hotheaded Jackson challenged him to a duel, but Scott declined. In 1828, he was back in the public eye when he was relieved of his command after repeatedly threatening to disobey the orders of the general in chief, Alexander Macomb. Despite his many squabbles and reprimands, Scott himself became general in chief in 1841. True to form, he clashed with Secretary of War William Marcy over conduct of the Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place...
...Monitor's famed Civil-War duel with the Merrimac took place off Newport News, Virginia. She foundered in a gale off Cape Hatteras on December...
Dillingham, the sophomore diver who went through nine duel meets undefeated and then won the Eastern highboard title and finished second from the low board, will compete in the one meter tests today and three meter tomorrow. Diving coach Charlie Batterman has accompanied him to Austin...