Word: dueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the major general is the very model of comic relief when he buries a boring ballad by aping a concert singer ineptly palming a prompt card. When the card flutters away like a leaf, he imperturbably unpockets another, finally loses his aplomb in a venomous facial duel with the orchestra...
From his earliest expatriate days, when he knew James Joyce and Gertrude Stein at Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into...
...Butler inspires every upstart to an all-out effort to whip him. His third time out this season, when he burst in front at the start of the $25,000 Summer Festival Pace at Roosevelt, spectators wise in the ways of the wagon ponies strained to see the expected duel. Could the Butler's seven rivals box him in and keep him from winning? The Butler dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler kept his lead...
Milton Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt turned down the invitation immediately. The committee then wired Castro: "The committee does not believe that the interests either of the prisoners involved or of Cuba's need for raising agricultural production can be best served by a propaganda duel through an exchange of cables." The committee was prepared to ship 100 tractors to Castro within two weeks, with other lots of 100 to follow. Neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Milton Eisenhower would go to Havana -but the committee had in mind sending six U.S. engineers and farm experts to complete negotiations. And, following...
...game was a real pitchers' duel between Kelly and the Crimson's Tom Boone. The Yalie gave up but three hits, and was only in trouble in the seventh, when he loaded the bases on a walk, hit, and an error. He then struck out Dick Diehi on three pitches to end the threat...