Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited every single one of Peru's 144 provinces, something no other politician could say. He promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Belaúnde won a legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children...
...World War II, and now have no fewer than 450 women's teams. Besides, beating an Australian at anything is a considerable chore. For five innings of the final game, Australia's Lorraine Woolley and the U.S.'s Donna Lo Piano toiled through a scoreless pitching duel. The Aussies had a bit of a scare in the fifth when a U.S. lass tripled, but tight defensive play left her stranded on third. Then in the sixth, Australia's Eleanor McKenzie doubled. A pretty secretary from Ashburton, Victoria, Eleanor got her start playing cricket with the boys...
...Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 26: the broad jump at the Golden Gate Invitational track meet, beating the U.S.'s Ralph Boston in the rubber match of their winter duel; at San Francisco. In two previous meets, each had won once, and the total margin between them was ¼ in. This time Ter-Ovanesyan leaped 26 ft. 4 in., beat Boston...
Gradually Malcolm became caught up in the rhetoric of black nationalism. He wanted to duel and white students obliged...
...program of political action. Most wanted to know about the doctrine of self-defense. Still others asked why he said, "chickens come home to roost" in reference to President Kennedy's assassination. He was a "dancing bear." The audience wanted him to perform--and the code forced him to duel...