Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday's game with Columbia was one of the best college contests in several years. It featured a tense pitching duel between Harvard's sophomore sensation Paul Del Rosel (6-0) and Columbia's hard luck fast ball ace Bob Koehler (2-3). Del Rossi finally won a 2-1, two hit ball game, but suspense was high until the last...
...sooner did Freeman's program arrive on Capitol Hill in January than the Agriculture Secretary and the Farm Bureau began their duel to win over legislators. But the great gladiators overlooked Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a political pixy who is fond of making dramatic displays of his independence. A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Proxmire introduced a measure that would, in effect, scrap the Freeman proposals and continue the present farm program for another year. The Agriculture Committee adopted Proxmire's substitute by a 9-8 vote...
Today, the usual form of the fight is the Mensur, from the Latin for measure, in reference to the set distance between the swordsmen. Unlike a duel, the fighters are not responding to a challenge, and in fact may not even know each other. The Mensur also differs in the extensive safeguards aimed at preventing any killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains...
...hold you through two rather unexciting scenes, but then comes "C'est Magnifique," and then a well-choreographed "Quadrille." And so it goes, up and down, all evening. Happily, the downs are not serious, and the ups are frequently glorious. A notable up is a very funny duel scene featuring Hillaire Jussac (Charles Breyer) and Boris Adzinidzinadze (Harry Knopf...
Garibaldi and Cornell's Ray Ratkowsky then commenced a real duel. Big Red threats in the fourth and sixth were erased by catcher Dick Diehl, who picked one runner off second and threw another out trying to steal third...