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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe it or not, it was a game for six innings. Starters Jeff Pokorny and Billy Doyle hooked up in a fine pitching duel, the latter--who is slated to pitch Saturday at Columbia--departing after his scheduled five innings with a 5-1 lead and a five hitter...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Humiliates Brandies by 25-2; Farrell Ties Record With Six Hits | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

Convinced that his son has been brainwashed, programmed like a computer, the distraught father Allan (John McMartin) hires a deprogrammer to restore Shelley to his precult self. The duel of wits, will and passion between the boy and the deprogrammer, Balthazar (Anthony Zerbe), forms the core of this eruptively theatrical play. Echoes of Equus resound-of the boy who blinded horses he took to be gods, of the psychiatrist who cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Unholy Flame | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...that each of the openers doesn't have its own distinct flavor. In '79, the crowd was talking mostly about the disappointment of the year before, and Rice. Evans and Lynn all homered. Two years ago, the star was Eckersley in a close 3-1 pitchers' duel...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Lunch With the Red Sox | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Moderates duel with the right as El Salvador's election nears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: A Country Up for Grabs | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...teen-age schoolgirls violate the sanctity of the room and go AWOL from their parents' code by valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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