Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oust him had circulated so often during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...
This year the duel returns to Connecticut. On November 19 mid-Cambridge will become a ghost town for a day. It will be like a neutron bomb blast: the Yard and the Houses will remain standing, but temporarily devoid of human life. Friday lectures will be poorly attended, as everyone sweeps down to New Haven and a Saturday morning appointment with the Yale Bowl...
After allowing one run in the bottom of the first to tie the game. Rubin settled into a pitching duel with Falcon hurler Mirmina. While neither pitcher gave up more than seven hits in the game. Rubin was more clearly in command...
Unfortunately for the Crimson the second game was any thing but a pitching duel...
...batwomen had been counting on a strong showing in the second half of the tournament, but quickly found themselves in a pitching duel with defending champion Brown...