Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Swedish Ambassador to Britain, furious at the Earl's description of Sweden as "a piddling country," challenged him to a duel, the Earl accepted with alacrity. "I have suggested as a meeting place the Hyde Park underpass, and as weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living...
Harvard's great sprinter Aggrey Awori, who turned in one of the best performances by a Crimson athlete in recent years in the Boston Athletic Association meet during exam period, will duel Gerry Ashworth, Dartmouth's Ivy League champion. Ashworth nudged Awori in the BAA, but Awori, who tied meet marks in both the hurdles and the sprint during the preliminaries of that meet will be rested tomorrow and should be considered the favorite...
...tracing foot motions through bars, murky corridors, sleezy alleys. Even symbolism raises its heavy head: a train rushes by into the night as the prelude to the crisis scene between Shirley and Weir in his bedroom. The dialogue is so prosaic that it is often funny; a tense verbal duel in bed between Olivier and Signoret got more laughs than the presumably witty "Arabic" interchange in Manchurian Candidate...
...lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands in a demonological duel to the death. Sneering hideously, Karloff points his forefinger at Price: from the end of it, as from the barrel of a metaphysical peashooter, blue pellets of supernatural energy blip! blip! blip! Frowning sternly, Price points his forefinger at Karloff: from the end of it, green pellets of supernatural energy blip! blip...
...Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...