Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the present rulers will surely not be swept away quite that precipitously, Kremlinologists believe that in the five years following Brezhnev's death, most of the top leadership will be replaced. Every effort will be made to give the impression of an orderly succession. An interim leadership group...
With Ford out of the running, Howard Baker remains a top contender for the vice presidency, but a certain amount of opposition to him is building. While his skilled performance as Senate minority leader has won him the plaudits of G.O.P. moderates and even Democrats, he remains unacceptable to much...
The other prime contender is Bush, who in the view of one of his advisers "is in better shape with the true believers of the right than Howard Baker," because of Baker's vote for the Panama Canal treaties. Bush, who on Pennsylvania primary day was wearing gold cuff...
RUBY concerned the infiltration of spies into the camp of Democratic contenders, then [into that of] the successful candidate. COAL was the program to furnish money clandestinely to Shirley Chisholm of New York to finance her as a contender and force Democratic candidates to fight off a black woman, bound...
It is just that kind of rah-rah ambition that makes college basketball one of the most exciting and unpredictable sports in the country today. A talented newcomer can walk into a moribund basketball program and make his school a conference contender in his first year and a national champion...