Word: duel
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Without its two regular lightweights, the squad dropped its opening two matches. Sophomore Phil Herrera at 123 lost, 6 to 1, after being tied up most of the duel, while 130-pound Don Fern was pinned in the second period...
Nasser, needing a mass political base, thought he could use the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood thought it could use Nasser. Both miscalculated, and a quiet duel for mastery began. Mild-looking Hodeiby offered to support the soldiers, if Nasser would submit all their proposals for prior approval. Nasser politely declined, instead offered Hodeiby three Cabinet posts for his Brotherhood. After some parleying, the Supreme Guide angrily refused to let his followers join the new regime. Still the cautious wooing continued; there was no open break...
...accent on the vice. Taking advantage of a gimmick (since corrected) in the Constitution, Burr, running for Vice President with Jefferson (who was running for President), was almost able to get the top job for himself. While he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was indicted for murder, skipped to Georgia, returned to preside over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, made a moving farewell address to the Senate and slammed the door when he walked...
...went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston, "has hitherto been trying to hide behind me. Now I gather he is endeavoring to hide behind my father." The duel came to a sudden end when Sir Winston had to leave the floor, apparently for a room which in Britain always bears his initials. "As I see the right honorable gentleman about to leave," said Bevan, "I think of Shakespeare: 'What private anxieties we have ye know...
...manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes...