Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly was quoted correctly in ''Profundities, not Facts" [Dec. 28], but my newspaper affiliation was not correct. I have been feature editor of Chicago's American, not of a rival afternoon publication, for 14 years. Please let me remain in my present status with a resurgent, progressive medium...
Then Chiang Kai-shek sets off the nationalist revolution. Step by step the ship and her crew are isolated, humiliated by loss of their work coolies, shocked by the knowledge that they are helpless. They degenerate into snarling rival groups, capable of rioting over a few onions, capable of murder...
...Rival of Jerusalem
Later during the time of Alexander the Great, the Samaritans, a dissident religious sect, tried to make the city the rival of Jerusalem. (The Samaritans believed that Mt. Gerasim, rather than the sacred hill of Jerusalem, was the mountain where God first entered into covenant agreement with his people.) Shochem's final destruction occurred about 107 B.C., when the Samaritan capital was destroyed by John Hyrcanus, high priest and prince of the Judeans in Jerusalem...
...Dear Herbert," Mary wrote in the return mail, "I have decided to get engaged to John [John was Herbert's high-school rival]. He thinks I am the most wonderful girl in the world...