Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeper's warm and sympathetic care, Hediger explains, they gradually shed their innate fear of man and begin to accept him as an equal in every respect. Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while she is in heat, the male may rear up, roar menacingly and act as if he is ready to tear his cage-and his keeper-apart...
...Baker performed his now ritual triple in the half mile, mile, and two-mile, within the space of an hour. He took the mile in 4.06 and the two-mile in 9.14.1. Both events were Harvard sweeps. But they were not enough, as Harvard lost to its chief track rival on the banks of the Hudson...
When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...
...company can only get bigger. Over the past decade, its net sales have grown by 97% to 1967's $7.3 billion, while profits have more than doubled to $384 million. It has long since outstripped its old rival Montgomery Ward (1967 sales: $1.9 billion), is approached only by aggressive J. C. Penney Co. ($2.7 billion). Last week Sears Chairman Gordon Metcalf, 60, reported first-quarter 1968 gross sales of $1.9 billion, a 13.9% rise over last year's first three months. Says Metcalf: "Nothing that I can see will change our direction...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...