Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spend a warm summer afternoon walking between 50th and 51st Streets along the Avenue of the Americas. There, the crowds that congregate for a visit to the Time & Life Building's street-level Exhibition Center, and pause to relax near the fountains in the plaza, are likely to rival any on Broadway...
...roofed buildings were set ablaze, and conservatives later claimed that 47 of their number had been "barbarously killed." At one point, trapped for three days in the physics building, they dashed off a telegram to Mao detailing the carnage and pleading for his help. Elsewhere in Canton, the two rival factions staged the Cultural Revolution version of "chicken": lining up some 20 military vans in two rows, they roared toward one another and collided head-on in a tangled heap of metal. Those who survived shot their way out of the wreckage...
Villegas' attack is directed almost as much against Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a bitter political rival, as against the Japanese. Marcos sees Japan as a source of sorely needed investment capital, last year issued an administrative order that enabled the 17 Japanese businesses, which include such well-known trading firms as Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha Ltd., to operate in the Philippines. The Japanese obtained government licenses and moved in quietly; most of them discreetly left corporate name plates off their office doors, instead put up signs reading simply "Welcome, walk...
...Ahmanson's financial colossus was his Beverly Hills-based Home Savings & Loaji Association, which, with assets of $2.5 billion, is nearly double the size of its nearest rival. Ahmanson built it from a single Los Angeles S & L he picked up in 1947 for the fire-sale price of $162,000. All told, the chain now serves some 775,000 depositors at 32 branches, takes in $1,000,000 a day in new deposits...
...taken in by anything that the Moscow rabbi had to say. Conference officials proclaimed his visit "another cynical act on the part of the Soviet Union to hamper relationships between Soviet and American Jews." Levin's first press conference was turned into a shambles by two rival spokesmen of the crowd that had come to greet him, each of whom tried to outshout the other for the privilege of delivering the welcoming speech. To restore order, Levin finally turned his back on both of them, faced the wall and started chanting the minhah, the Jewish evensong...