Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton took the lead after the 152-pound bout when Mike Slutzker suffered an 8-6 setback in a hard-fought match. In another exciting duel, Mark Faller battled the Tigers' Ted Swisher to a 5-5 draw...
...varsity wrestling team rolled to an easy 27-9 triumph over Brown last night at Providence to move one step closer to a duel for second place with Princeton next week...
...last page. Much of the book is taken up with an intricately choreographed, totally absurd mating dance set in motion around his fusty deathbed, as various relatives pursue each other in preposterous shifting triangles like the occupants of a French bedroom farce. They even fight a mock duel. Most kinetic is a cheerful, kindly son-in-law named Danby in whose house Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa. She and a forbearing homosexual nurse...
...called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges D'Anthes, to a duel. Pushkin was shot in the stomach and died two days later...
...Dreadful Duel. In the later stages of the marriage it became clear to John and Effie that separation was the only way back to life and freedom. Each one, separately and privately, seems to have set about trying to get rid of the other. The question was, how? Divorce was impossible except on the ground of adultery, a legal procedure regarded as unthinkably damaging socially. A dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen...