Word: slugfest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes turned at that point to the number one singles match, where Pompan prevailed in a two-and-a-half hour slugfest with the Terrapins' top man. Bob Weise...
...defense treaty with Taiwan. Barry Goldwater's office is cranking up bills to restrict the President's power to end treaties. "We will seek assurances on Taiwan," says Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who wants to maintain a U.S. Liaison Office on the island. He foresees a Senate slugfest on the issue: "There will be feathers all over the place, Byrd's and others' "-meaning Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...
...thermometer was needed to know early last week that East-West relations were growing even colder. In a slightly undignified verbal slugfest, President Carter and Cuba's Fidel Castro traded public charges over the role played by Cuban troops in the May invasion of Zaïre's Shaba region by Katangese rebels. The Soviets, meanwhile, stepped up a new anti-American harassment campaign; they arrested one Moscow-based Yankee businessman on what seem to be trumped-up charges and angrily publicized bizarre details about the activities of a CIA agent who had been expelled from the U.S.S.R...
...State of the Union speech. Equally perplexing is a consideration of whether Carter's campaign slogan "Why Not the Best?" applies to all of us in this society or just to him--just his best? Perhaps some of this would be clarified in a 1980 Carter-Brown slugfest...
...simply, that was a bummer," said Harvard quarterback Haywood Miller, one of three signal-callers utilized by coach Loyal Park in the defensive slugfest. Miller and cohorts Pat Carreon and Mike Jacobs could complete but two passes for 59 yards. The ground game wasn't much better, garnering but 80 yards...