Word: face-off
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Harvard scored two quick goals in the first five minutes when Doug Thompson capitalized on an errant B.C. pass and Murray Dea converted on a face-off. However, B.C. tied the score within a minute on both occasions...
...Tense Face-off. Apart from the diplomatic confrontation between London and Santiago, the case of Dr. Cassidy highlighted one of the central dramas in Chile today: a tense face-off between church and state over the is sues of human rights and torture. In the months since the military coup that toppled Salvador Allende, the country's Christian leaders have emerged as the principal opposition to the repressive measures imposed by President Augusto Pinochet and his junta. As a result, priests, nuns and Christian laymen have become the objects of roundups by DINA, the dreaded Chilean secret police...
...strategy of the game. Master Mind has been tested on 600 students and teachers in British schools, and the results have been published in an article written to help inventors of other games. A nationwide elimination contest with hundreds of entrants is now under way. The 50 finalists will face-off in London next month at the Magic Circle Theater...
...Whitlam, a crowd-pleasing orator, is at his best in a fight, and in recent weeks he has been drawing his largest audiences in years. No Australian government has been subjected "to such utter cussedness and harassment," he said. If Whitlam is not inclined to duck the present face-off, neither is Fraser, particularly after picking up the public support last month of respected former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies...
With next week's tennis face-off between U.S. Open Champ Jimmy Connors and Australian John Newcombe...