Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...animism. Nevertheless, last January all 14 Buddhist sects in Viet Nam joined together in the Unified Vietnamese Buddhist Church, under the leadership of Tri and Thich Tarn Chau, a tiny, affable monk who is currently leading the Buddhist activists in Saigon and is clearly emerging as Tri's rival. The two leaders moved 50 chaplains into the South Vietnamese army and set up two ambitious institutes, one for religious and the other for secular affairs, with plans to organize families in rural areas into Communist-like cells...
...help reunite their slowly splintering movement. At first, El Lider was lukewarm to the idea, but gradually, as Perón talked more and more about it, the vision of a triumphal recovery of power became an obsession. Isabelita, too, became infected, soon dreamed of replacing her old rival Eva. By last week, when several key Perón aides advised him against El Retorno, the mirage had gripped Perón's brain like a drug...
...literature, called Moser's statement "irresponsible," and said that the university should be hospitable to obnoxious opinions. Even Frederick Barghoorn, who spent 16 days in a Moscow jail last year as an alleged U.S. spy, gulped and endorsed Rozhdestvensky's visit as a useful dialogue that explores rival opinions...
...favorite yarn at the National Football League's plush Manhattan head quarters concerns a plaintive telegram that Commissioner Pete Rozelle received from a coach in the rival American Football League. POPE JOHN WAS A GREAT MAN, read the wire, HE RECOGNIZED THE OTHER LEAGUE. Rozelle's reply: TRUE, BUT IT TOOK 2,000 YEARS
Burroughs feels very close to Hassan; he says Hassan seems to dictate portions of his novels. Vying to usurp Hassan's dominion over earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...