Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased the fears of the European extremists. When I was home this summer one of them said to me, "If we allow the Africans to take over the government there will be chaos. Look what happened a few years ago in the Harari African township when the two rival African parties declared a virtual war on each other and started burning each other's huts down. If the European law had not stepped in the total African population may have become involved. How can we let these people govern our country...
Pickett picked Columbia as the team's most serious league rival after Cornell, and predicted that Princeton, blessed with a good crop of sophomores, will be considerably improved over last year's sixth place finish. Penn, Yale, and Brown will fight for the crumbs...
...Spartans put the finishing touches on a perfect (ten victories, no losses) season by rolling up 286 yds., holding the No. 4-ranked Irish to 24 yds. passing, minus 12 yds. on the ground. Michigan State's probable New Year's day opponent: U.C.L.A., which beat crosstown rival U.S.C. 20-16. In a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, Dartmouth's Mickey Beard scored two TDs and passed for a third as the underdog (by 61 points) Indians snapped Princeton's winning streak at 17 games, 28-14. Obviously, it doesn't pay to make Arkansas...
...plot is surefire. Beautiful young Queen of Scotland takes a lover, plots to kill off her sottish husband, succeeds but loses her throne and flees into the hands of her homely rival, Queen Elizabeth of England, who throws her into prison and, some years later, has her beheaded...
...lover and the actual murderer of her husband. A group of Protestant noblemen, who had always been hostile to their Catholic Queen, seized Mary and forced her to abdicate. She soon escaped to England and threw herself on the mercy of Elizabeth, her cousin and longtime rival...