Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never really pressed, Nayar polished off his first five opponents 3-0. He then smashed Navy's Bob Earl 15-8, 15-5, 15-9. A rival coach watching the match noted that the sophomore marvel made only four errors in the three games...
...Yale freshmen, who rival the varsity and the T.V.A. in waterpower, swept every event in an 83-11 shellacking of the Crimson freshmen...
Dictates & Disciplines. "Do you have no feelings at all?" Chou demanded of three rival groups of Red Guards that he had summoned to the Great Hall in order to get them to merge. "Your methods of struggle against your leaders not only make it impossible for them to work but also for them to remain healthy." Chou was incensed at the frequent Red Guard abuses of government and party officials, who have been the prime targets for China's rebellious youth since the Maoist "revolution" began last year...
...annual stockholders' meeting last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over a cavernous Times Square theater currently showing rival 20th Century-Fox's The Bible. MGM's own epic turned out to be a mixture of real life and reel life. President Robert H. O'Brien showed a 25-minute promotional film featuring clips from the company's latest motion pictures, the theme being that MGM's Leo the Lion has been bellowing forth lately with a "roar heard round the world." For one conspicuous member of the audience, that was not enough...
Mobutu searched the world for a new team of technicians, even dickered with a rival consortium about taking over the mines. In the end he found no one who would or could come...