Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made?" At 45, when he met Ellen Ternan, a blue-eyed actress of 18, he thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought...
...tradition of most Westerns, Pony Soldier opens with a bloody battle and ends with a more personalized duel between the hero and four menacing savages. Between the two extremes of the movie Power spends the rest of his time looking sternly at the Indians, refusing to lot them bluff him, and smoking several sacks of Bull Durham in a succession of pow-wows...
...teams from Mexico, France, Ireland, Canada and the U.S. The chief competitors: Mexico's famed Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 1948 Olympic champion, and France's brilliant Pierre d'Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel-but it was for secondary honors. The surprise star of the show, breaking a longtime Mexican monopoly: young (27) Billy Steinkraus of Westport, Conn., far & away the most glittering amateur rider to come up in the U.S. for years...
...beginning of World War II, the Eagle challenged Hermann Göring to a duel in Messerschmitts at 10,000 feet over the English Channel. "We'll see who's the biggest baboon," he remarked, but Goring ignored the challenge. Julian dropped from the front pages, sold used cars in Harlem for two years, then enlisted in the U.S. Army. He spent two uneventful years as an Air Corps sergeant in the U.S.; after the war he started the Black Eagle Airline, which never got off the ground...
...Yardlings' victory wrapped up the day successfully. In a neck and neck duel by two undefeated freshman captains, Tempe Lowrey of Princeton and Al Wills of Harvard, Wills came out a nose ahead to win. They both had identical times of of 14:48 over the shortened 2.8 mile course...