Word: duel
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...tourney will offer competition in slalom, tricks and jumping in men's, women's, girls', boys' and senior men's elasses, but most attention will be on the men's trick event. An old duel will be revived, and several newcomers to world prominence will challenge the veterans for top honors...
...immediately won a seat in the federal assembly, and soon set his sights on the presidency. With fiery speeches and expansive promises, he came within 110,000 votes of beating Manuel Prado in 1956, and he has been campaigning ever since. In 1957, he fought a saber duel with a Congressman who called him a "demagogue and a conscious liar" (both men were slightly wounded). Two years later, he was imprisoned on an offshore island for defying a presidential ban on political rallies during a general strike, and staged an exciting prison break, attempting to swim to an escape boat...
...sporadic artillery duel continued, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma desperately tried to get his pro-Communist halfbrother, Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, to agree to a resumption of truce talks. But Souphanouvong vetoed every location for the peace talks suggested by Souvanna Phouma. Sighed a Neutralist colonel: "The discussions move like the tortoise and the war can move like the hare. Maybe before the location for the peace talks is decided, the decision for Laos will have been made in battle...
...Frank Ripley gave the Crimson its first single win against the Tigers in two years when he walloped Hugh Lynch, 6-4, 6-2, in the number three match, and Doug Walter, number five, outsteadled C.D. Smith in a backcourt duel...
...three of its games and a pitcher, Dick MacPherson, who hasn't given up a run this spring. MacPherson has been touched for only six hits in his eighteen innings of pitching. In his last start he blanked Tufts on a two-hitter, beating Miles Negelo in a pitchers' duel, 2-0, Del Rossi also outputted Nogelo when the Crimson played Tufts, but Del Rossi won't be pitching for Harvard Saturday...