Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savior of the ward-and especially the Chief-from the organized inhumanity of Big Nurse is a patient named Randle Patrick McMurphy. A laughing, brawling, gambling man of the world, McMurphy begins his duel with Big Nurse in sheer human exuberance and ends it in a grim, heroic struggle to the death...
Local sports fans will have a rare opportunity tomorrow afternoon to witness an expert fencing duel complete with all the trappings of a medieval ritual...
Harvard fencing coach Edo Marion, will duel in a special match with Joe Levis of Boston. The challenge bout will precede the Harvard-Princeton match...
...duel is being held in an effort to spark interest in fencing, according to Marion. "We thought if we put on a challenge bout with all its formality and excitement we could give the public a good show," Marion remarked...
...bout will be with the foil which is a modern descendent of the short dross sword. The conventional fencing weapon, it weighs 17 ounces and is 43 inches long. A seven-touch duel will "be equivalent to five rounds in a boxing match," Marion said...