Word: dueling
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...Crimson found itself engaged in an extra-inning pitcher’s duel in the closing game...
...line between "regret" and "apology." The troops are home; the spy plane that was almost decapitated by a hotshot Chinese pilot will follow - after the Chinese have taken apart every radar, sensor and computer inside. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of the great U.S.-Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th. For the past decade or so, Beijing has been telling Washington: "The Western Pacific is our lake, move over." Not in so many words, of course, but the signal has become shriller after the collision...
...first serious setback to the Crimson's Ivy title chances came in the first game against the Lions, when Columbia's Allison Buehler and Whitton engaged in a pitcher's duel. Harvard took an early lead when sophomore catcher Monica Montijo doubled in Watanabe, who had stolen second...
Harvard dropped the first game of the set, 2-1, as Tiger sophomore Brie Galicinao locked horns with senior hurler Chelsea Thoke in a pitcher's duel...
...McCain-McConnell duel, at least, ended Thursday with a concession. Campaign finance reform's least apologetic enemy gave up the fight in full-on supervillain mode, thrusting his pointer at a chart of the fund-raising future and growling to supporters - particularly Democrats - that they would rue the day they bit the system that feeds them...