Word: duel
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WHRV's 48-hour jazz orgy which ended yesterday inspired two students to engage in a listening duel...
Chambers said he regretted that public attention had concentrated on what amounted to "a kind of duel between two men," meaning himself and Alger Hiss, the ex-State Department official he named as a fellow conspirator in Communist espionage. Said he: "The most important thing for everyone to understand is the duration and the dimension of the conspiracy rather than the characters of the persons involved or what seem to be the chief protagonists...
...fighting commenced formally, like a duel. The Israeli Foreign Office handed a warning to the U.N. Commission. A few hours later the Israeli army announced it was taking "steps to prevent the Egyptians from continuing aggressive action." The evening of the same day Jewish forces attacked Gaza from the sea; the following day they attacked it from the air, bombed Egyptian outposts in the southern Negeb desert...
...contest was arranged with the rigorous etiquette of a duel. The two contestants first chose their seconds: a local Catholic layman and a Communist poet. When Father Lombardi refused a public out-of-door contest ("I have no fear...
...Granary: Elisha Brown, for instance, who in 1769 barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...