Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero pumps up a powerboat and gives chase. His rival is soon unplugged. Psssssssss, no rival...
...Hoosiers jammed up close to the line to hold back Ferguson, Hayes used the forward pass to capitalize on Indiana's thinned-out secondary for a 16-7 victory. Last week it was business as usual, with Ferguson plunging for two touchdowns as the Buckeyes brushed off intersectional rival Oregon...
...Ferguson was a legend before he even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed by Ferguson's ability to gain as much as 470 yds. in a single game, swamped him with offers. None...
...America any tips they might pick up on who might be ready to sell another heirloom. Duveen also had a wicked way of dealing with his competitors. Once, when a High Church duke asked him to take a look at a religious painting he was considering from the rival firm of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Duveen blandly said: "Very nice, my dear fellow, very nice. But I suppose you are aware that those cherubs are homo sexual." As Duveen's biographer S. N. Behrman tells it, the painting went back to Agnew's forthwith...
...dealer today is less flamboyant, though in his own way no less dramatic. The dean of all dealers is the erudite Georges Wildenstein, who has never let the spotlight linger on himself for long. In 1956, the rival M. Knoedler & Co. sued the house of Wildenstein, alleging that someone had been tapping the wires of a Knoedler scout. Eventually the whole matter was dropped, and Wildenstein himself was apparently never involved. He would hardly need to use such tactics, for the one irreplaceable asset of his house is himself. A scholar in his own right, Wildenstein not only possesses...