Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most gripping, the inquest took on the aura of a political trial. An excerpt from another duel between Kentridge and Goosen...
Foilsman Eugene Vastola emerged as the hero of Harvard's effort in the 27-bout match, clinching the victory for the Crimson with a crucial 5-4 win in the last duel of the evening...
With score 4-4 in Vastola's battle against Sandhurst's Denny, the last epee duel ended in favor of the British captain, Nick Reid, making the score of the match a cliff-hanging 13-12 and increasing the pressure on Vastola...
...along the way, Westerby begins thinking unsoldierish thoughts, railing not only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training and beliefs. What results is an intense emotional conflict to play counterpoint to the usual shoot-em-up spy duel, a remarkable spy story that ruthlessly dissects the tortured moral rationalizations that make up the mind of a cloak-and-dagger king...
Largely because of the cup rules about the procurement of cloth, design and sail-cutting talent, this year's series, like so many in the past, was anything but the dramatic duel of titans, the mystic mano a mano on the deep that sailors dream of and the New York Yacht Club ritually invokes. The outcome has been virtually certain since the first leg of the first race, when it was discovered that Australia-mainly because of the poor cut of her jibs-could neither point as high nor go as fast to windward as Courageous...