Word: duel
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...earned 58,000 pesos ($11,931) and fountain pens, radios, razors, beer, wine, shoes and hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked up on the next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper, cheering Oscar on, ran a headline: CAN ANYTHING STOP HIM? The foggy, mountainous road between Cúcuta and Valera couldn...
Cantankerous as his opinions were, he hated physical violence. He was deeply grieved when one of his sons killed a man in a duel, yet he advised his boys to become soldiers rather than politicians because: "In battle men kill without hating each other; in political contests men hate without killing, but in that hatred they commit murder every hour of their lives...
...Harvard crew officially lifts the lid on its 1948-49 campaign tomorrow morning with the annual Armistice Day intra-squad race on the Charles. The traditional duel is scheduled...
...Winthrop-Lowell duel, the Winthrop squad got hot in the second half and put over two scores to win the game...
...nine innings at Braves Field, a crowd of 40,135 sat spellbound by the tightest World Series pitchers' duel since Art Nehf beat Sad Sam Jones in 1923. Sain kept feeding the Indians big, jug-handle curves, interspersed with little curves, until they were fit to be tied. His control was uncanny; he allowed four hits and not one walk. Feller, who pitched a two-hitter, gave up three bases on balls, which led to his undoing. He lost a heartbreaker...