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Word: dueling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from DeChellis's double, triple, and home run -- giving him six for seven in the first two games -- yesterday's contest was a pitcher's duel between Harvard's Dave Fierke and Tom Soucie of the visitors. Each whiffed ten batters and allowed just seven hits. The freshmen had opened their season last Friday with a 7-6 win over Boston College in 10 innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Netmen, Baseball Players Stay Undefeated | 4/26/1967 | See Source »

...never played on a championship team. Last week he took out his frustration on the Celtics, and particularly on his longtime nemesis, Boston's 6-ft. 10-in. center and coach, Bill Russell. In a fierce personal contest that one sportswriter described as "the flashiest high-altitude duel since Eddie Rickenbacker v. Baron von Richthofen," Chamberlain outscored Russell 108-57, out-rebounded him 160-117, made 50 assists to Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Curtains for the Celtics | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...chap in cloak and whiskers knifes his sister's suitor. The suitor was unwell anyway: a rival spitor gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The Devil's Law Case | 4/17/1967 | See Source »

Profeta, who has been fencing for only two years, captured 22 of 28 bouts. One of his victims was defending Eastern and NCAA sabre champion Paul Apostol of N.Y.U. -- "one of the best bouts in my life," Profeta said of the 5-3 duel...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Profeta is All-America in Sabre | 4/11/1967 | See Source »

Captain Wayne Andersen lost a tight duel with Army's Van Evans in the 60--their third head-to-head contest of the year. The little sophomore Cadet nosed Andersen out again in a photo-timer finish and tied Aggery Awori's meet record, set in 1963. Andersen's 6.2 time equalled his personal mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen 2nd in Heps As Baker Sets Record | 3/13/1967 | See Source »

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