Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounded. Three hours later, the Israeli army opened up with light machine-gun fire on the Jordanian side of the valley. The Jordanians fired back, and the battle was on. Israeli artillery pounded an evacuated village, and Jordanian 155-mm. Long Toms zeroed in on seven kibbutzim. As the duel spread south toward Jericho along a 65-mile front, the Israelis called in their jets, sending waves of fighter-bombers across the river and behind the Gilead mountains deep into Jordanian territory to bomb out the Long Toms...
...this shifting ground, Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy meet next week in what was to have been a clear two-man duel. Aside from contending for blocks of the state's 59 convention votes, each candidate has a large psychological stake in the primary. McCarthy's is to prove that New Hampshire was only the beginning for him, Johnson's to show that New Hampshire was an aberration. But Robert Kennedy, who is not on the ballot, and has not campaigned there, may become a decisive enough factor by means of write-in votes to make...
...expectations were electric, and in some respects, the duel between the Secretary and Committee, Chairman William Fulbright was dramatic enough. But the outcome was a curiously flat standoff...
...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
...heart-stopping finale to the meet, which became a Harvard-North-eastern duel in the opening trials Friday as the five other Boston schools fell far behind...