Word: duel
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Foreign languages do not simply acquire American terms, of course, but adapt and rework them in a sort of hybridization variously known as Franglais, Spanglish or Japlish. The Germans, who have traditionally enjoyed concocting exotic combinations like Satisfaktionsfahigkei t (the state of being socially eligible to fight a duel), now add English to German as though creating a polyglot strudel. Powerstimmung, for example, means a great mood, which can make a German ganz high or even ausgeflippt...
...YORK -- Curt Young beat Ron Guidry in a duel of left-handers, as Oakland scored the winning run in the ninth inning on an error by New York center fielder Rickey Henderson to defeat the Yankees, 2-1, Tuesday night...
That is only the first mystery in this Chinese box of a thriller. The second, nearly a half-century later, stars King Vidor, veteran director of such epics as Duel in the Sun and War and Peace. Vidor had worked in Hollywood ever since 1915 and had known both Taylor and Minter, but as he entered his 70s, he could no longer find assignments. Teaming up with another oldtime star (and onetime lover) named Colleen Moore, he decided late in 1966 to make a film about the Taylor murder...
...twin-bill featured quality pitching by both teams, including an old-fashioned pitching duel between Dartmouth's Mike Remlinger and Chris Marchok in the first game...
...Bush-Kemp duel in Michigan, as elsewhere, exemplifies the clash of cultures within the Republican Party. The Vice President's team consists primarily of mainstream moderates, country-club conservatives and most of the state party elite. Bush, who beat Ronald Reagan in Michigan's 1980 primary, never misses a chance to stress his ties to the popular President: "I was on the phone with the Situation Room this morning," he told supporters at several stops as he discussed the Soviet nuclear accident. Instead of propounding a personal vision for the future (dangerous for a Vice President at this stage...