Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans slowly filed in for the big BU-Harvard duel, the name-calling was already beginning. At center ice, a Crimson fan wearing a Bob Sweeney-lettered shirt tried to match wits with a cluster of about 10 Terrier fans; sad to say, the BU bums were outdueling him. "Let's go Radcliffe!" and "R-P-I!" screamed the crazed Terriers, and after swallowing my pride I condescended to meet the ringleader, one Tony Biscardi, a BU alum and first-year grad student...
...last century, for example, there were leaders of academia in this country who opposed allowing the infiltration of Darwin's ideas into American education, out of a misplaced fear that the theory of natural selection undermined belief in a Creator. And until the dramatic court-room duel between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evolution was still contestable subject matter for the classroom...
...Meringoff's relative lack of inexperience burt him in his duel with E1 Sawy...
...Game seven against Atlanta in '88. The single most clutch performance I've ever seen. The experts said the Celtics were too old, and Atlanta was the team on the rise. But Bird had other opinions. In a personal duel with Dominique Wilkins. Larry scored 20 points on 9-10 shooting in the fourth quarter. Some of the shots would have received a 4.0 for degree of difficulty...
While Penn, Princeton and Columbia, duel for the league's top spot (and lone NCAA berth), Harvard will probably compete with Dartmouth, Cornell and Yale, for a spot in the middle of the pack...