Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Punter's earlier heroics, however, that provided the most excitement of the meet. In the meet's first race of the day, the mile, Punter locked in a duel with Northeastern's Dino DiBiaso that wasn't settled until the home stretch, Punter put on a late surge to cross the tape in a 4:16.20, just 0.03 seconds ahead of DiBiaso...
Angry knots of buzz-cut skinheads and helmeted police circled each other warily in the halls of Oregon's Multnomah County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will...
American democracy may be the inspiration of the world, but the transcendent spirit has dismally failed to uplift U.S. elections. Once again this year, politics has degenerated into a duel of negative TV spots, even before the desperation tactics that usually erupt in late October. In California, a barrage of blistering commercials in the Governor's race conveys the impression that Charles Keating was a piker in the S&L scandal compared with Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Texas voters are so dispirited by the ugliness of the gubernatorial shoot-out that both candidates probably could be defeated...
...between two characters, I (Jeremy Geidt) and He (Tony Shalhoub), at the Cafe de la Regence in Paris. I is a philosopher who spends hours "observing all, talking to none," at his favorite haunts. He is the outcast nephew of the celebrated French composer Jean Philippe Rameau. Their verbal duel can either be interpreted as a disagreement of lifestyles between two people or as a vocalized internal struggle within an ambiguous individual...
Despite the cancellation of the duel championships at the Garden, the ECAC has decided to continue with its plan to stage its semifinal and final games in the Garden...