Word: duel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the Crimson down 5-4 after a heartening victory by Leslie Feder, who also chalked up 1-3, Sze lost a particularly crucial bout. After climbing back from 4-3 to tie the duel at 4-4, she fell to Yale's Peacock...
Cooper herself gave Rhode Island one of its only two victories in her first bout against Lisa Hornyak. Missing with her lunges and parrying slowly, Cooper fell 5-2. In her next duel, however, she came back to edge Susan Wiener, 5-4, forcefully parrying her big opponent's last attack and then counter-attacking for the touch. Cooper then thrashed her last two adversaries...
Despite the continuing state of emergency in Cambridge, the fourth annual Ivy League Women's Basketball Championships finished its semifinal round yesterday at the IAB, and to no one's surprise, the final will feature a Princeton-Yale duel...
...Feraud has the mentality of a yapping farm dog, and when his wound has healed he forces another duel. And another. There is peace between the two men only in time of war ("Duels between nations take absolute precedence," one of D'Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...
...French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking out at a splendid river valley. The last duel has been fought. The scene is one of peace...