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  • Karl E. H. Seigfried Ireland's "Big" Joe Egan Recalls His Sparring Days With Mike Tyson

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • Sparring over the land broke out within a few months, but was suspended under a one-year cease-fire.

    An Afghan Alliance Takes Unexpected Turn Michael M. Phillips 2011

  • Sparring was always “light contact” and everyone there was cool.

    I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • Sparring with words "goes back to Jane Austen and all the great romances in history."

    In This Online Word Game, the Winning Spell Is Love Shayndi Raice 2012

  • Sparring with Mr. Romney is one thing, but mixing it up with Ron Paul?

    Perry the Piñata Carl J. Kelm 2011

  • Sparring in Congress continues this week over how to extend the payroll tax cut.

    Small Employers Fret Over Payroll-Tax Uncertainty Angus Loten 2011

  • Sparring and the thought of dealing injury had never made the human prince feel the way he did now, when he was doing something concrete to ease pain instead of cause it, to help people instead of harm them.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • Sparring and the thought of dealing injury had never made the human prince feel the way he did now, when he was doing something concrete to ease pain instead of cause it, to help people instead of harm them.

    The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

  • Sparrow Sparring in - volved the projection of the player's commands to living birds, who flew up and attacked each other with beak and claw.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Sparring with Justice Stevens in Monday's decision on gun rights, Justice Antonin Scalia painted his colleague's approach as "a system in which unelected and life-tenured judges always get their way."

    Stevens Evolved From Court Loner to Liberal Wing's Leader 2010

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