Word: duel
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...pond has melted by now (the modern indoor ice rink has long since replaced it), but as Ivy League hockey nears the 100th anniversary of the first Brown-Harvard ice duel, what was then a friendly game of ice polo has emerged as one of the most successful NCAA programs in the Ivies...
Perhaps more remarkable than the Harvard blowout was the fact that Adelphi kept the game close for a period. After 15 minutes of play, the two teams looked as evenly matched as a pair of drunken Western gunslingers preparing to duel...
Yesterday at Soldiers Field, Baxter and freshmen Cody Weston and Zach Hope combined to hold Boston University to three hits as the Crimson edged the Terriers, 3-2, in a fierce pitcher's duel...
Captain Peter Holmes concluded his illustrious career on the mats with a fourth-place finish in the 167-lb. division. Holmes faced Cornell's Andy Rice in a much-anticipated semifinal match--the two tied 1-1 in their duel earlier this year. Neither could score a point until Rice took. Holmes down and levelled the quick pin during the second period. This was only the second time in his collegiate career that Holmes was pinned...
...Bush-Rather match (otherwise the merest blip in the history of a presidential campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...