Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kerrey and Harkin will duel it out this week in the impossible-to-predict South Dakota primary. Kerrey remains the far more intriguing candidate, both in his potential electability and in his still evolving efforts to define himself. Voters like Kerrey, but they do not understand him, especially when he makes such cryptic comments as "I know what it is like to be alone, and I'll tell you when I'm President there won't be a single person who will feel alone." Moreover, he cannot seem to explain how to connect the dots in his shadowy vision...
...Several young chess talents live like street bums these days because there isn't any tournament money available," Boris Spassky, famous for his chess duel with American Bobby Fisher in the early 1970s, told Gazzetta dello Sport...
Arabs and Israelis finally sit around a table in Madrid, but so far the conference is a p.r. duel...
Finally, the Dartmouth Aires had a clean sound, sang an inspired "Jesse's Girl," but lost the audience with their random humor. After watching two members of the group have a metaphysical light-saber duel with kilbasa sausages, the crowd was left waiting for Godot to arrive...
From the looks of things, this game was going to be interesting--a passing duel between Giardi and Ciaccio...