Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the jurymen can focus their attention on the witness without having their attention distracted or their view obstructed by counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close to the witness stand so the jury can closely watch every reaction in the duel between two adversaries. During crossexamination, the witness should be held under tight rein and not be given an opportunity to tender more than yes or no answers. It is the sign of a bad cross-examiner, says Nizer, if he must ask "Why?" or "Will you explain that...
...book's English publication last spring precipitated a celebrated scholarly duel between Taylor and fellow Oxford historian and longtime rival, Hugh Trevor-Roper (The Last Days of Hitler), who attacked Taylor for "perversion of evidence" and "irresponsible antics...
...just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only in the second half, when Russell relaxed, did Chamberlain begin to click. By game's end, the duel had turned into something of a standoff: Chamberlain had scored 52 points, but the Celtics won, 123-113. "Winning is the important thing," said Team Man Russell, as he slouched wearily off the floor. "If a sorcerer told me, Til break your arm and your team will win the championship...
Still another duel, this one quite tangible, has shaped up between incumbent Councilor John D. Lynch and Daniel J. Hayes, a member of the School Committee with more political aspirations. Although Hayes has campaigned vigorously and vociferously, he will not have an easy time against the many years of Lynch tradition in north Cambridge...
...career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series of nonsmash movies and a 1935 divorce-his third-from Actress Barbara Stanwyck...