Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Blair; 66. hurt hand while dunking basketball; 67. fear of flying; 68. pulled a hamstring playing hoop; 69. reserve clause litigation; 70. went down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later; 79. killed by pitched ball; 80. Gary, IN; 81. Frank Duffy and Sam McDowell to the Giants; 82. Nettles and Jerry Moses...
...famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...
Harvard's freshman superstar Darlene Beckford added yet another first-place finish to her string of victories that seems unlikely to be threatened in regular season competition. In last Saturday's duel against Brown, Beckford reaffirmed her place among the nation's best runners by shattering the Franklin Park 5000 meter course record...
Carter and Kennedy duel over competing health plans...
Davidson will need all his skills and then some against the Canadiens, who have won the Stanley Cup for the past three years and, led by the peerless Guy Lafleur, defeated the Boston Bruins in a magnificent, brawling 4-to-3 series. It could be a fascinating duel: the old boys against the new. The revived Rangers have incentive enough. They finally have a chance, as long as the one that has brought them this far, to win their first Stanley Cup since...