Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direct contrast, Harvard has dropped its last two games, losing a double-overtime duel to Boston University in the opening round of the Beanpot last Monday and then wasting another excellent effort Wednesday in a 2-1 decision to Cornell...
...popular half-form is the adaptation, half novel and half play. A novel has the time to grow imperceptibly, like a tree, acquiring added rings of meaning. A play is more like a duel or a trial. In a brief two hours it must draw blood or render a judgment...
...course, if the Crimson gets too confident and begins to look past today's match to the tough duel with McGill Saturday, Cornell might pick up some points. But It's scarcely conceivable that Harvard could lose this one--the team learned some valuable lessons about overconfidence when an unheralded Army squad almost bounced the Crimson last Friday...
Should the weather be favorable, quarterbacks Bassett and Brian Rapp may be tempted to start a passing duel. Neither has thrown frequently in the past, but both have shown considerable competence in this area. Some aerial motion will probably be necessary to unsettle the strong ground defenses both teams are expected to display...
...Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, hinges on a duel in a loony bin, and the play seems almost as disturbed and disturbing as its setting. Ward Nurse Ratched (Joan Tetzel) is a kind of female Fu Manchu with incredibly sweeping authority. If a patient steps out of line, she punishes him with electric shock treatments...