Word: duel
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...light beer for expectant mothers to a heady 6% brew so nourishing that Bavarian monks in the past drank it to supplement their meager diets during Lenten fasts. The company emphasizes beer's importance by giving each adult worker 68 free bottles weekly. Like his employees, duel-scarred General Director Bernhard Bergdolt, 56, every morning has a 9:30 a.m. "second breakfast" of bread, sausage and the lion's brew...
...dual system--one to carry the rain water, the other to carry the waste--can run into the millions, City Manager John J. curry '19 told the Council. He quoted an official of the Metropolitan District Commission as estimating that Boston would need $50 million to convert to a duel system...
...Unexpected and decisive strokes-named for Comte de Jarnac, who quickly disposed of an opponent in a 1547 duel before France's King Henri...
...hard, McCauley recalls, but the company was cheerful. After a rugged day on the trail, there was hot grub and mescal liquor to pleasure a person, and down Mexico way there were bullfights too-though it did "look like a man was getting tola-ble low to fight a duel with a bull when he could easy get out of it." Now and then the cowpoke got to a big city. San Francisco was his favorite. In the funniest passage in the book, McCauley describes how a country boy behaved in one of the elegant restaurants there...
...Industry Needs You." Jennifer Jones, an Oscar winner for her role in Song of Bernadette, was a young actress that Selznick found. He starred her in Since You Went Away, Duel in the Sun and Portrait of Jenny. In 1948 Selznick divorced Irene Mayer, in 1949 married Jennifer. After the marriage, Selznick virtually retired from film making, produced only one more picture-Farewell to Arms (1958) with Jennifer Jones. But semiretirement did little to modify his compulsive ways. For Farewell, he wore out three secretaries while dictating a total of 10,000 memos, ranging from single sentences...