Word: dueling
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Because the three strong individual performances, each fencer enters a final 24-man field in his respective division. The concluding two days of the tournament will become "an endurance test," according to Marshall, as each Crimson fencer prepares to duel all other 23 finalists. Each contestant will participate in 15 matches today and eight on Thursday. The swordsmen compiling the best overall record in each dueling category will be declared the victors...
...victory avenged a crucial Harvard upset over the Tigers (now 6-5 in the Ivies) three weeks ago, a setback that put an early crimp in Princeton's annual duel with the UPenn Quakers...
...spark for the final confrontation was no conflict between principles, but rather a duel between personalities: Robinson and Woodbury, two prominent members of the class. Robinson was an outstanding scholar, a prominent and well-liked member of the class's unruly majority. Woodbury was a "Black"--an informer and, an avowed enemy of Robinson...
Jimmy Johnson got the thinclads off to a fast start with a tremendous performace in the long jump. The event had become a duel between Johnson and Northeastern's Russ Hartman with each one topping the other's last leap. Hartman broke 23 feet first, but Johnson met his challenge with a leap of 23'11'', his finest jump ever. Johnson's ecstasy only lasted a few seconds, however, as Hartman flung himself through the air for all of 24'1". And at the end of the preliminaries, Hartman's leap was the longest...
...familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope.." Read it a hundred times; wince a hundred times. In the specific case of El Salvador, and Latin America, the Reagan administration argues that the fight against the people is actually a duel with Communism, with Moscow and Havana. The current issue of U.S. News and World Report, (with the bright red headline "Is Central America Going Communist?") features an interview with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. "What is at stake is the radicalization of the Western Hemisphere by foreign powers...