Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junior Russell Graham fought the first duel at number three saber and won without difficulty. Then, the heretofore injured Michael Bierer wielded his saber against his first foes of this season. The sophomore, who showed promise and skill last season on the varsity, fenced smoothly and with determination to defeat two Woodsmen and finish the sabers' sweep...
Harvard's Pete Fitzsimmons and Huskie John Flora both broke the cage record in the two-mile. The start of the race saw Harvard's Reed Eichner sprint to an early lead. After a few laps he faltered and it was a two-man duel between Fitzsimmons and Flora...
...skidding end to the most dramatic racing duel in recent memory. Lauda is a methodical Austrian whose technical brilliance and unflappable personality had brought stability-and a championship-back to Ferrari after a decade of decline. Hunt is the dashing Englishman who brought the verve of a swashbuckler to staid Team McLaren. Roundhead and Cavalier, a rivalry that seemed fated...
...being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock did during the Second World War, which features a great duel-to-the-death atop the torch of the Statue of Liberty, prefiguring the brilliant kitch Americana of the Mt. Rushmore scene in North Dy Northwest. Among the gems in Sabotage are Oscar Homolka as a magnificent agent of foreign powers and an undisclosible suspence sequence in which Hitchcock totally outraged...
...They ended with bitter exchanges and Senator Walter Mondale calling his opponent a "hatchet man." The debate last week between the two vice-presidential candidates-the first such session in the nation's history-turned out to be a tart and often engrossing display of political theater, a duel between two evenly matched men whose debating skills had been sharply honed during the wars on Capitol Hill. Both Mondale and Dole sometimes articulated the views of their top bananas more concisely and with better effect than Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford had been able to do during their debates...