Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hung jury, settled a damage suit by paying his alleged victim $5,000. Even after he entered San Francisco's Hastings College of Law in 1961, Terence had at least three fights, one of them a melee growing out of a bare-knuckles duel between his brother and another law student in Golden Gate Park...
...jacket nips in at the waist, flares out slightly at the side with twin vents in the back. Padding squares off the shoulders. There are four buttons on the sleeve, and - a vestige from days when gentlemen rolled back their cuffs to duel or simply wash their hands - the buttons unbutton. The look of a custom-made Savile Row suit is unmistakable. So is its durability, mainly because of thousands of hand-stitched seams in the canvas foundations. For all its vaunted prestige, the suit's greatest virtue may actually be its price: even with a 21% import duty...
McKelvey was also involved in a mishap that ruined what could have been the best mile relay race of the year. He dropped the baton on a pass from Bob Cook, who had just taken a three-yard lead on the third leg. The duel between McKelvey and B.U. anchorman Hemery never came...
Neither Buell (rhymes with duel) nor his wife had close ties with Colorado Woman's until 1959, when they struck up a friendship with the school's President Eugene Ellsworth Dawson. Colorado Woman's has 50 well-trimmed acres in a top residential area of Denver, draws its 1,037 students from all over the nation. Until Buell's gift, it had an endowment of less than $2,000,000. It plans to use income from the new trust mainly to improve its faculty...
...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...