Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troubles Galore. The party, which is an unwieldy conglomerate of rival, disparate factions, lost ground for just about all the reasons that can flare up in a hungry, desperate land. It was blamed for the food shortages that are plaguing India for the second successive year; for violent riots, which Indira's permissiveness sometimes seemed to encourage; and for the country's stagnant economy, which no amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought...
Bethell's aggressive professionalism is based on the conviction that every well-edited, attractive magazine is the Bulletin's natural rival for the subscriber's dollar, and that the Bulletin must match their general interest to stay afloat financially. Others (his two editorial assistants for instance) see the competition nearer to home in a publication named Harvard Today...
PROVINDENCE, R.I., Feb. 25--Brown's and Harvard's rival wrestling coaches played wild tricks with their lineups here today, but only Howie Freedman's brutal, basic pin in the 177-pound match could finally decide a 22-12 Harvard victory...
...which was spared the 43-day machinists' strike, soared on full seats and heavy military charters. The strike did cost it a $12 million payment to rival TWA and the other four affected lines under a mutual aid pact, but profits nevertheless increased 61% to $84 million. Flying into 1967, Pan Am got a big boost last month when it finally won permission as the only nondomestic carrier to fly its international passengers across...
...that rival teams are capitulating. Last month California played him so tightly that even Lew complained: "They grabbed my arms when I went up to shoot. They held me and pushed me and banged me all around." He still scored 26 points in the 96-78 victory...