Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gossip," pooh-poohed the palace spokesman. "He is numbered among her friends." No doubt about that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton three-day horse trials in April, and another $600 that Smith would not win the event...
Coming in the heyday of the hitter, Vida Blue's success is all the more remarkable. It also points out one of the happy paradoxes of the game: while many fans prefer the action of a double rattling off the wall, just as many dote on that subtle little duel between hurler and hitter. Baseball has its troubles?shaky franchises, feuding owners, player dissents?but as long as its basic appeals thrive, so too will the game...
SLEUTH (284). This is the kind of thoroughly satisfying mystery thriller that comes along about as rarely as total eclipses of the sun. It is British, literate, wildly funny, and spiced with an edgy, menacing duel of wits and wills. In the lead roles, Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter are smashingly good...
...tightest pitching duel of the Series, Brayton had shut out the Broncos when Bo McNurlen-and old schoolmate of the Crimson's J. C. Nickens-doubled to lead off the sixth for Pan American...
Gregg ran fifth in the early stages of the race, behind Revision, and the three-way first place duel between Follmer and Javelin drivers Mark Donohue and Tony Adamowicz. Gregg moved up to second when Donohue spun out of the lead and stalled. Adamowicz broke down, and Revson made a long pit stop. Driving a smooth, steady race, Gregg never relinquished second place to his pursuers, and took over the lead briefly when teammate Follmer pitted for fuel...