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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton is not on Harvard's schedule this year and has not been for many years. The toughest contest the women face this season is their April 22 duel with Yale in New Haven. Two other Ivy teams, Penn and Dartmouth, will make the trip to Cambridge with the Big Green sporting a strong squad...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Women Take to Courts Against B.C. | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...They could not bring themselves to support a coalition of bitter enemies engaged in fierce mutual recriminations and incapable of agreeing on a platform. Even though the French youth from 18 to 21 voted for the first time, the Left did a shade worse than in the Mitterrand-Giscard duel of 1974. And so, the C.P. is back in the political ghetto...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: France: A Precarious Balance | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...golfers finished sandwiched between Jacksonville and Flagler in their first duel match played on Flagler's home 18, the Donald Ross-designed Ponce de Leon course. Flagler is a small college golfing titan, so the Crimson's one-stroke victory proved as rare and refreshing as the barbecued steaks served up by Flagler's colorful coach Hoop Thebault at his St. Augustine condominium...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Sizzle on Southern Swing | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...Moro kidnaping triggers a duel of nerves

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In Search of the Red Brigades | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Aside from the intensive man hunt, the uneasy country was all too aware of the duel of nerves being played out between the state and the terrorists in two vastly different trials. The first was the legal trial, in a fortified barracks in Turin, of 15 Red Brigades members charged with previous counts of kidnaping, assassination and armed insurrection. Though the trial has been repeatedly postponed as a result of Red Brigades intimidation, authorities were more determined than ever that it must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In Search of the Red Brigades | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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