Word: face-off
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...carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman, playing tentatively, lost 4-6. But it was Stove who then fell apart, double-faulting repeatedly, while Wade settled down and carried the last sets 6-3, 6-1. It was a victory that brought Queen Elizabeth...
...Exorcist II: The Heretic, Father Richard Burton arrives from the Vatican to search out Pazuzu in Linda's soul, and meanwhile have a religion-science face-off with Psychiatrist Louise Fletcher, who wants to do the job by hypnosis. Pazuzu gets mad as a hornet - or rather as a locust, the guise in which he usually appears. He makes Linda's eyes glow and flings her postpubescent body about like a beanbag. Soon she is back in that bedroom in Georgetown, where Burton tries to rip the heart - literally - out of her possessed alter...
...world's troublesome flash points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries but four -Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open, ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as early as this summer...
...game was fairly even until the opening face-off, at which time the lax-women let it be known that much like all of their Radcliffe sporting brethren this year, things are different this time around...
...Hampton's Steve Evangelista led off the Huskie's scoring drive thinking he was playing against the NBA's mandatory shot clock: After the initial face-off Evangelista stole a Crimson pass and lefted a soft shot past the shocked Roche in--you guessed it--24 seconds...