Word: duel
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...undeclared and mostly bloodless duel is being fought for the control of Indonesia's 3,000 islands and its 85.5 million people. The well-matched opponents are the only two organizations in the nation that are European in structure, efficiency and administration: 1) the army, under Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40. 2) the Communist Party, under the leadership of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, 36. These days the Communists are taking a silent licking...
...sizes, should have a style to match their subject. Sometimes the news and the circumstances mold a story into the form of a novelette, especially when there is an edge of mystery and a gathering of men of wealth, women of beauty, and rapacious figures from the underground to duel over one of the world's great fortunes. The locale should be evocative: cafes on the Champs-Elysees, sun-drenched days at Cap d'Antibes, intrigue and attempted murder on the war-ravaged reaches of the North African coast. For such a true story, involving those standbys...
...Corral," the temporary fence built around Boylston Hall, claimed its first victim last night, as a Soc Sci 5 section man was shot in a duel with a sophomore...
Petrarch G. Erasmus '51 died on Mt. Auburn St. after crawling halfway to Stillman Infirmary. With blood pouring from a wound in his chest, the dying section man gasped, "I gave the guy a 'D', so he challenged me to a duel...
Dean Watson called the duel "most deplorable," and said that the "corral," which had been intended as a mating pen for the Chinese dragons, had "tasted sin." Watson indicated, however, that Hall's grade would be raised. "The University can do nothing to impair the obligation of contract," he said...