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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split the protagonist is a suburbanite businessman played by Dick Van Dyke. The antagonist is his wife (Debbie Reynolds), who, although surrounded by a faithful husband, two handsome, happy children and a $49,000 house, nonetheless feels that her marriage is a snore and a delusion. As the two duel downstairs, their boys, who have heard it all before, listen upstairs, giving each parent points on a chart. The marriage game continues in the presence of the couple's lawyers. Debbie fights dirty, and in no time at all, Dick is taken to the cleaners. She gets custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The High Cost of Leaving | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...innings yesterday it was an old-fashioned pitcher's duel, with B.U.'s Nick Stipanovich matching Peters' showing. In fact, Harvard managed only one hit off Stipanovich till the seventh inning, when the Crimson rallied for two runs and sent the righthander to the showers...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Peters Whiffs 16 in 4-1 Win Over B.U. | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

...strength left for an impressive duel in the stretch with Proud Clarion, and observers said later that if top jockey Bill Hartack, who wanted the mount, had been on Barbs Delight, it might have gone the other way. Hartack will have the horse, and one-sixteenth of a mile less to go, in the Preakness...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Barbs Delight to Take Muddled Preakness | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...reaches out occasionally to snap on a loudspeaker dubbed le perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping Assembly into one that talks back and can be recalcitrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Reform by Decree | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...longest match was at one, where John Levin lost a tense 10-8,9-7 duel to Williams's Pete Grossman. Levin held four set points in the first set, but Grossman's net play decided the crucial points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racketmen Nab Easy 7-2 Victory | 4/27/1967 | See Source »

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