Word: duel
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When the general handshaking was over, President Siles spoke briefly to his brother, Genaro: "It is your duty to challenge Dr. Calvo in my name to a duel. My office prevents me from doing so, but our honor, and the honor of Bolivia must be avenged. ... He turned his back! Challenge...
...Lynn, Mass., one Antonio Gallo and one Rossanio Boleno, aged 60 each, fought a duel with walking sticks in Central Square, applauded by a growing crowd, until interrupted by policemen. Both wore spectacles and needed their sticks in order to walk. A judge fined Mr. Gallo $10, Mr. Boleno...
...corporation which his grandfather (another Stephen Baker) helped conniving Aaron Burr create in 1799, ostensibly to furnish Manhattan drinking water against the yellow fever epidemic of that year, really to weasel a banking institution through the objections of Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr hated and later killed in duel...
...University game was featured by a pitching duel between Molloy and Booth, both men hurling in airtight fashion. Tobin was the lone scorer for A. while Donaghy and Tower made the Team B tallies...
...disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies...