Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another major complaint has been that when the HDC established the committee, it also approved a rule that no undergraduate could direct on the main stage unless he had previously directed two shows elsewhere. With competition for the main stage becoming fiercer, the student with the most successful shows is likely to come out on top--and success in this case usually means good reviews and Loeb word-of-mouth on the worth of a production...
...talent between the two pro leagues was so intense that a taxi-squad quarterback got $200,000 in bonus money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league has one new team to stock from scratch: the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League...
...Viet Cong - numbering nearly 1,000 - started slowly, by ambushing a single battalion engaged in a routine roadclearing operation. Then, as relief convoys dashed out of Quangngai, the Reds snapped ever-fiercer traps on the would-be rescuers. It was the same trick-in the same place-that had destroyed several French regiments in 1953, just a year before Dienbienphu. Some of the ambushed government soldiers panicked, ripping off their uniforms and throwing away their weapons to hide out in hamlets and paddyfields. Those who surrendered received no mercy: many were found shot through the head and disemboweled...
Race, religion, reapportionment-each year the storm that swirls around the Supreme Court of the United States gets fiercer. To some Americans, the nine black-robed Justices have struck blow after blow for national maturity...
...more. "You must have confidence in yourselves," he pleaded. "You have honored me as a leader and as a teacher, and now the teacher says: 'It is time to return to the class.' " No sooner had Muñoz finished than the chants erupted again-louder and fiercer. He grabbed the microphone. "You cannot make me violate my own conscience!" he roared above the din-and that was that...