Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday's loss to Boston College was the first Crimson defeat at the hands of a local rival in two years and broke a ten game winning skein against B.C., Northeastern, and Boston University. With this in mind, the still potent varsity should pulverize the Ephmen in tonight's 7:30 p.m. contest...
Among the darkest hours in Jack Kennedy's drive for the presidency were those of late April 1960, just before the Democratic primary in West Virginia. In the economically depressed state, the poorboy liberalism of Rival Candidate Hubert Humphrey seemed to be stirring the voters. Kennedy, fearful that Humphrey would beat him, called up a reserve weapon: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.. whose father was still idolized in West Virginia...
...kind of general aid to public schools that runs into constant trouble, but it also has more than ever of the selective aid in specific fields that Congress has been approving since the birth of the republic. The one-package idea also seeks to unite rival organizations -notably, the American Council on Education, which lobbies for colleges, and the National Education Association, which last year helped to bring about the defeat of the college-aid bill...
...muscle, Taiho has only one apparent weakness-a slight slowness to react to a slapping, windmill attack. But he is so strong that he can usually outmuscle ! his opponents. "If he stays in shape and 'doesn't let fame go to his head." says a rival wrestler, "Taiho can be the greatest sumo champion of all time...
...Review, in essence, seeks the role of a Harvard community Daedalus. In so doing, it implicitly attempts to rise above the generality of student magazines into the league occupied by such national publications as Commentary and the Partisan Review. One may well doubt that it will ever seriously rival these magazines. But, if its first two issues represent a trend, it has certainly earned the right to be considered in their terms...