Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick agreement. On the Israeli-Egyptian side, where discussions had been successful, withdrawal was under way with few minor hitches. But there was no joy on Israel's other, snowy battle line with Syria. There artillery and tank gunners from both sides carried on a daily long-range duel along the El Quneitra-Damascus road. The Syrians said that four of their soldiers had been wounded in the exchanges. Israel reported one killed and three wounded. They were the latest casualties in ceaseless sniping that imperils the cease-fire arranged by the U.S. Secretary of State...
...nice quiet duel for Shockley and Innis...
...tent at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road, where Egyptian and Israeli officers had met to discuss ways of carrying out the ceasefire, remained empty all week. On both the Suez and Syrian fronts, United Nations observers reported increasing numbers of cease-fire violations, including an air duel over the Gulf of Suez fought by Israeli and Egyptian jets. From Tel Aviv and Cairo came warnings that full-fledged hostilities could be resumed at any moment...
After the first few matches of this Saturday's Harvard-Cornell squash duel were completed, it was apparent that the Big Red just did not have the experience to keep things respectable. When it was over, the Crimson had triumphed...
Aaron Burr seems particularly pertinent. The Burr-Jefferson Electoral College tie in 1800 led to the Twelfth Amendment, which revised the process of electing the President and Vice President.* After killing Alexander Hamilton in the Weehawken duel in 1804, Burr became the first Vice President to be indicted-a precedent that has lately been dusted off by constitutional experts...