Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Annunzio wore his school uniform with such an air of authority that soldiers saluted him. At 19 he was a journalist and cafe ornament in Rome. At 20 he married a lady of noble name, and soon afterward acquired a scalp wound in a saber duel with a literary enemy. Thereafter, his luxuriant chestnut hair fell out. leaving the poet bald-but romantically so. A marginal growth of beard, big, bulging blue eyes and a glorious voice rounded out his romantic panache. Through all this persisted a galloping logorrhea...
...Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more jam. After his family fled to England, Sanders easily withstood a British public-school education (Brighton College), got a job with a South American cigarette company, but was thrown out when he pinked his mistress' fiancé in a revolver duel. A bounder, but not yet a villain, Sanders returned to London and developed a low opinion of singers by briefly becoming one (bass-baritone). The move to cinema came naturally, and the author's sneer became permanently and profitably fixed...
...proved as adroit and magnetic off the platform as on it. In Kenya, when Kikuyu women in bright-colored print dresses presented him with a head basket for his wife, he jauntily put it on his own head. When he was challenged by a confident Mohammedan missionary to a "duel" of healing the sick, Graham smiled and said: "The Lord has not given me the power of healing. He has only given me the power of speaking...
...Yale was tremendous. In head-to-head competition, the Elis swept everything but the 500 duel. The Crimson two-mile relay team came in a poor fourth, behind a stacked Holy Cross lineup, Yale's second unit, and Brown. The Bulldog's top four half-milers ran a superlative 7:43.8 to win the spotlighted two-mile relay...
...tragically died 2½ months before he entered the Presidency. During his final years in the Hermitage, Jackson kept in his bedroom the pistol with which he had killed Charles Dickinson defending Rachel's honor (as well as the bullet in his own chest received in the same duel...