Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Innsbruck--sun, corrupt in his basic indifference to our ragged emotion and hope. He wore a blue plastic badge as a catchet of his sterility. The opportunists from mass media delayed the game so that they could beam coast to coast a clicheridden conversation with the rival managers...
When Harvard scheduled Boston University to replace Tufts as this year's second football opponent, local fans cheered in eager anticipation. In place of an outmanned pushover from Medford, the Crimson was taking on a cross-Charles rival many experts were predicting to win the mythical New England championship...
This does not explain Nigeria's problem. The rival tribes clearly need each other. The Ibos, one of Africa's most progressive tribes possess skills essential to Nigeria's economy. But their over-populated Eastern homeland has neither the room nor the resources to accommodate its volatile and aggressive people...
...approached 1,700 owners or managers. He found that many of them were segregationists only for economic reasons. "What they would most like," argues Ekman, "is a law that would force them to open up." That way, of course, no landlord would be fearful of losing white renters to rival apartment owners. Without such a law, Ekman can only counterweight landlords' misgivings about accommodating Negroes with the certainty that they will lose all their military business by refusing...
...larg est city, has played poor relation to the more prestigious Venice Biennale, which is held in even-numbered years. Nonetheless, the ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, which is beginning its three-month run in the city's Niemeyer-built exhibition hall, this year bids fair to rival Venice...