Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Postponed on Saturday because of shifty winds, the race again seemed in jeopardy on Monday. Then, almost an hour late, with a southwesterly breeze notching a tender eight knots, the duel was on. Liberty, the defending twelve-meter yacht, took yet another start from the Aussies. Midway up the first leg, however, the Americans' 8-sec. lead turned into a deficit of three or four lengths as Australia II streaked upwind on a starboard tack and Liberty went to port. After the first crossover, Aussie Skipper John Bertrand committed the cardinal sin of leaving his opponent uncovered. Liberty Helmsman...
...President Gerald E. Ford. At the other was former President Jimmy Carter. The two were slated to address the crowd on the problem which the two-day symposium was called to examine--the marked decline in voter participation, which dropped below 55 percent during the two men's 1976 duel...
Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
...expected, Secretariat and Sham staged an early head-to-head duel. Then, with his long, beautifully rhythmic strides, Secretariat began to pull away...
...meantime, the once beautiful capital city and its suburbs endured another week of random violence. The fires in the hills were caused by a four-sided artillery duel whose participants included the Druze and Christian militias, the Lebanese Army and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Even the U.S. ambassador's residence in the suburb of Yarze took several rounds, which set the garden ablaze and forced Ambassador Robert Dillon to seek refuge in the Presidential Palace, a short distance away...