Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-time Yale led 5 to 4 with the third chukker providing several spectacular goals. High scorer for the Crimson in the fast-riding duel was Skiddy von Stade with four goals...
...entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...
...Senator David Colbreth Broderick was head of the Democratic Party's Abolitionist wing in the State, and Chief Justice Terry was for the South and slavery. The Senator called the Chief Justice a crook and miserable wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended...
...Immediately a White counterattack followed. Soon was raging what correspondents called "a massacre comparable to a battle in the World War." As Whites and Militia mowed each other down with machine guns, there was fought above them on the battle's second day the grimmest air duel they had yet seen. Down into their midst fell eleven planes-four Red, seven White. After three days of furious see-saw struggle with each army using the cream of its men, neither side had gained an inch...
Carried away by the publicity his swordplay was bringing him, Dr. Sarga neglected his affairs, failed to pay installments on his furniture. Nothing mattered except finishing off his hundred duels. A third duel was fought two months ago and still Dr. Sarga went unscathed...