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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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membership-and although the betting is that there will still be enough red or yellow lights to stop Peking, it will be close. Of more immediate consequence is a new duel between the U.S. and Russia. The Big Two are on what appears to be a collision course over Moscow's unpaid U.N. bill of $52.6 million -and many delegates fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Red, Green or Yellow | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...game develops into a passing duel between Zimmerman and Gales, defense may make the difference. Princeton, it should be noted, scored 22 points against Harvard just a week before being throttled by Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rejuvenated Bullpups Face Strong Harvard Freshmen | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...landscape will also hurt Harvard in its duel with Brown for third place. No Crimson runner is particularly noted for his speed, and that could hurt the team's chances of reversing its one-point loss to the Bruins in October...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Navy, Army Teams Favored in Heps Today; Walt Hewlett May Take Individual Title | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...shallow attempt to manufacture suspense, sports scribes have billed this afternoon's run in Franklin Park as a tense two-team duel between the Crimson and defending champion Northeastern. But even though the Huskies have won seven of seven meets so far this year, it's unlikely that they can upset McCurdy's charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Runners Duel Huskies In Greater Boston Meet Today | 11/3/1964 | See Source »

...Dueling Rommel. Patton saw his life as one long joust with the world. In peacetime, he trained himself for war as a medieval knight training for battle. He was a ferocious competitor in the pentathlon, in which he finished fifth in the 1912 Olympics, and polo, in which he was a seven-goal player. In his last year at West Point, he thrust his head into the line of fire during a sharpshooting exercise. "I just wanted to see how afraid I'd be," he explained, "and to train myself not to be." When war came, Patton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Lover | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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