Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson Caoch Frank McLaughlin emphasized a different aspect of the duel the consistent hard play of his charges and their steady offensive success. "When you play hard and keep the pressure on them there's gonna be a time when they play average," McLaughlin said...
...Delta duel...
...first half proved to be a punters' duel, with each team punting four times in the first 30 minutes. The only scoring threat came when Crimson placekicker Robert Steinberg missed a 43-yard field goal attempt just before halftime...
...well-publicized battle, "at various times...threatened to destroy Marietta or Bendix, or both," according to The New York Times. At one point in late August, it looked like each would succeed only in buying each other's shares, a kind of corporate analog to the mutually fatal duel of Hamlet and Laertes. The two companies--and a pair of other preying conglomerates--spent millions of dollars on legal and financial fees, while diverting the financial community's attention and credit for a month and discombobulating the stock market...
Quite shrewdly, Shakespeare brings Hotspur and Hal together only for the climatic personal duel at the play's end Here director Coe has made a serious mistake He bade his fight master. B H Barry, to stage the combat so that Hotspur repeatedly gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...