Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close five-way contest is expected to replace a long-standing duel between Harvard and Army in the 24th Heptagonal track championships tonight at Cornell. Pennsylvania is favored in the meet...
Part of it is oft-rehashed history-that moment late in 1940 when the outmanned Royal Air Force took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and changed the course of World War II. But Townsend, himself a hero of the battle, approaches the duel of eagles not as history but as a personal, crotchety reminiscence of the participants...
...DUEL OF EAGLES by Peter Townsend. 480 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...confrontation began on the steps of the OFIA building at 12:30 p.m., as SDS marchers and the YAF-YR students brought out bullhorns and engaged in a 15-minute shouting duel, one side chanting "workers, peasants, and students know-the OFIA has got to go" and the other side with "Keep it open" and "go back to University Hall...
Last summer, Mishima agreed to a Japanese publisher's proposal to do a photographic study of various postures of man's death, and happily posed for 15 postures, including drowning, death by duel and harakiri. Then, at an unprecedented show in a Tokyo department store that ended only three weeks ago, he displayed a set of photographs of himself in the nude. Last week the body that he had trained until it became his pride, together with its severed head, was cremated. Yukio Mishima left two farewell waka, the 31-syllable Japanese poems, that he had composed, like...