Word: duel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometime S.A.S. subordinate, sniffs something rotten in the North Sea wind but cannot pinpoint the terrorists' targetor persuade the mandarins of Whitehall that a catastrophe is gathering offshore. The battle of Samson (Stagg suggests that it be code-named Delilah) winds up as a duel of wits and weaponry between...
...upset. The nation's No. 1-ranked school, DePaul, which went into the championships with a 26-1 record, was toppled in its very first game, by a renascent U.C.L.A. North Carolina (21-7), a perennial power in the proud Atlantic Coast Conference, was whipped in its opening duel, by lowly Texas A.&M. Bad Bobby Knight's oh so good Indiana team, Big Ten champion, fell to Purdue. Duke, which was sixth in the A.C.C. standings, rose up to beat Kentucky, flagship of the Southeastern Conference...
...Evil under the bridges and tunnels and viaducts--the labyrin-the--of Morningside Heights, along the glistening, lamplit paths where Pacino cruises for the last time. They stare at each other, Pacino now affecting an effeminate walk. They throw down their burning fags in a mutual invitation to duel. Pacino steps out of his pants, urging on the killer ("get 'em down, I want to see the world") who whips out his blade. Pacino wounds him with his own knife and collapses against a wall, naked...
...gold medals as he competes in the 500-meter sprint. In the women's 500, Eric's sister Beth, 19, leads an American bid to sweep all three medals. In the pairs' figure skating, America's Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 20, open their duel with the Soviets' husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, in the "short program," which lasts two minutes or less and involves set routines. The most unforgiving event of the pairs' competition, the test could give an advance indication of who will...
...Harvard loss was not Hackett's fault. He narrowly defeated Saltzman in their 200-yd. freestyle duel and came within a tenth of a second of his lifetime best...