Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the splashy annual Cannes film festival produced its share of ecdysis among the visiting females. A Yugoslav beauty challenged Cannes Visitor Jayne Mansfield to a boom-or-bust tape-measure duel. Two Norwegian models, coyly heeding the open-fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder...
Martin's shutout was saved three times by double plays, with Martin himself involved in two of them. The game was primarily a pitchers' duel, with Northeastern limited to only three hits and Crimson batsmen garnering seven safeties off Northeastern pitchers. The Yardlings left seven on base, while the Huskies stranded eleven...
Mirrored Épée. After the performance, Dancer Lifar tossed his black locks in indignation, declared that he was challenging Cuevas to a duel. "Out of respect for his great age," he would allow the marquis the choice of weapons. The marquis answered. "I wish I could choose the whip, to give him a good drubbing," but decided on the more conventional...
...right-wing Deputy in the National Assembly, reported to Cuevas that there were no grounds for a reconciliation, told him: "I've just come from a meeting with Lifar's seconds. We've decided not to tell either you or Lifar where the duel will take place, because you're sure to blab about it. We'll take you there at the last moment...
...this news the marquis paled, objected feebly that the U.S. embassy (Chilean-born Cuevas is a U.S. citizen and married to a Rockefeller heiress) and the French police were both opposed to the duel. Le Pen, who habitually carries a revolver and a dagger to protect himself from Algerian terrorists and other menacing elements, replied icily: "Surely, you do not wish to engage a French officer and a Deputy in an affair of honor which will degenerate into a farce...