Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of a dramatic, two-man duel for the richest prize in golf (winner's share: $20,000) brought 150,000 fans to the dogwood-dotted Augusta course. And the gallery got its duel. On the murky first day, Palmer fired a fine 68; Player hung on with a 69. On the sunbaked second day, they swapped scores, and Player narrowly missed a hole in one when his tee shot soared over the creek in front of the par-three 12th hole, landed squarely in the cup and ricocheted 15 ft. away. At the halfway point, Palmer and Player...
Intimate Enmity. The earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first...
...dismay of the crowd, the individual medley duel between Kaufmann and Bulldog Dave Burgess--potentially the most exciting race of the day--didn't come off, as Kaufmann was needed for both relays and the backstroke...
...free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband of a belly dancer whose abdomen Ricketts had impugned challenged the columnist to a duel; Ricketts escaped the field of honor by inviting his prospective adversary to even the score by insulting Mrs. Ricketts...
...Private Duel. Last week, doubting John Thomas got his look. Staring moodily at the crossbar, Thomas rested quietly on a chair between jumps. Brumel wandered about the Garden infield, changing shoes repeatedly, warming up with graceful, balletlike leaps. By the time the bar reached 7 ft., all other competitors had dropped out, and the private duel began...