Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitchers' duel all the way, as Harvard's Curt Tucker fired a three hitter, at one point striking out eight batters in a row. The Tufts hurler held the Yardlings to only four hits...
Except for Harvard's big third inning and the Tigers' ninth inning rally, the game was largely a pitcher's duel. Peters and Fremuth each gave up only six hits. Clutch fielding in the fourth and eighth innings prevented potential Tiger threats from developing...
Inside the Post Office, in an austerely decorated twelfth-story courtroom, the adversaries in the case gathered last week for the first encounter in what may be a long legal duel. The five defendants--Spock, Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Harvard graduate student Michael K. Ferber, writer Mitchell Goodman, and former National Security Council staffer Marcus Raskin--were all there, each with one or more attorneys. So were Judge Francis J.W. Ford, who will hear the case, and assistant U.S. attorney John Wall, who will argue the government's side, at least at first. In addition, there was the usual...
Thirty minutes later Baker returned to duel Endrikat in the half mile. Baker edged into the lead in the last thirty yards to gain his second victory and set a Harvard varsity record...
...into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...