Word: dueling
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Pitchers' Duel...
...eyes of the real fencer any screen duel is, of course, an abomination...
...eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel...
That was a U.S. swimming milestone. But the chief thrill at last week's meet was a duel between two youngsters vying for the title of America's greatest freestyle sprinter-Yale's 19-year-old Alan Ford, who recently broke the world's 100-yd. free-style record, and Ohio State's 18-year-old Bill Smith Jr. At meet's end the question of who was greatest was not conclusively answered. Smith beat Ford easily in the 220; Ford beat Smith easily in the 100, neither in world-record time. But there...
...eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel. An unhappy ending follows naturally and is attained with all the Russian genius for melancholy. Chekhow perceives and portrays the dreamlike weakness of his characters, their inability to face and master the problems engendered by circumstance; but, at the same time, he holds out for those millions who know...