Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legends he was taught as a child. They are assorted freebooters and roustabouts who subsist precariously on the edge of civilization. Resigned as they are to a grim fate, the world holds no surprises for them. Murder is as casual as breathing. In The End of the Duel, two gauchos who hate each other are conscripted into the same army and taken prisoner by a malicious prankster who orders them to run a race after their throats have been slit. The winner never knows...
...everyday speech-a fantasy or a misstatement. It is rather a veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ...
Died. Peter Duel, 31, co-star of ABC's popular cowboy comedy series Alias Smith and Jones; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollywood, An alumnus of Manhattan's American Theater Wing, Duel went to Hollywood five years ago. There he was in demand on such network television shows as Name of the Game, Combat, The Fugitive and The Bold Ones. He starred opposite Judy Carne in the series Love on a Rooftop before taking the role of Hannibal Hayes (alias Joshua Smith), one of two not quite reformed desperadoes in search of vocational guidance...
...Navy match should be the most difficult duel match any Crimson squad has faced in years. Navy has three Eastern champions in the first three weight classes to challenge Harvard's strength...
Never in danger of losing. Harvard pinned its first three opponents and accepted a forfeit to open up an insurmountable 24-0 lead and coast to the final victory. Brown is still winless after five duel meets, while Harvard advanced its season record...