Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gwendolyn Detre de Sunny Cafritz, Hungarian-born wife of a wealthy Washington builder, once said, "and I worked my way up to the Supreme Court." But while Gwen could once corral several Supreme Court justices for her annual October cocktail party lately she has been getting none. Her chief rival, Perle Mesta, used to make up guest lists "like Noah, who invited something of everything into his ark " But Perle has sold her ark, a mansion called Les Ormes, to the Lyndon Johnsons, now lives in an apartment less suited to serving regiments...
...Shadows. In Syria, Premier Salah Bitar, 52, a co-founder of the Baath Party, resigned after being accused in party councils of "self-isolation from the masses." Translation: he must make way for an ambitious, younger rival. The rival: Amin Hafez, 42, Syrian commander in chief and a top party leader, who took over as Premier. As a prelude to his swearing-in, jets whooshed overhead in salute-and to discourage any possible trouble...
Paying the Bill. Latin Americas Catholic universities will probably never rival the national universities in size. Since the church schools seldom get support from the state, they must charge tuition that sometimes runs to ten times that of public universities. Their enrollment runs heavily to middle-and upper-class students...
...scored No. 544 against the Montreal Canadiens, thus tying Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard's alltime record. Now he was shooting for a new record and another entry to add to the eleven marks he already holds. Suddenly everything got much tougher. As a matter of pride, rival defensemen double teamed him, jabbed him with sticks and elbows, smashed him to the ice with vicious body checks...
...southern tip of Texas is a desolate land-flat, sandy, baked the year round by a relentless sun. Ranches here are measured in thousands of acres, and some of the sprawling estates rest on an unexplored ocean of oil. It is over one such pool of wealth that two rival groups of Roman Catholics have been waging a bitter battle of words and wits that echoes all the way to the Vatican...