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Word: rival (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that ever-widening circle of giving outside the family, Christmas sometimes takes on an aspect of the potlatch, a ceremony of the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest, during which the chiefs showered gifts on each other. Their object was to surpass a rival in generosity, and to crush him under future obligations. To avoid this nowadays, ground rules must be observed. Within an office, the first move must come from the superior-and if the subordinate responds with a gift, it should be clearly less valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE ART OF GIVING | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Working with space-age circuitry and components, engineers have designed new snoopers that are marked improvements on the cigarette-pack transmitters, the spike mikes and the phone taps of a few years ago (TIME, March 6, 1964). Today's bugs rival the imaginative equipment of James Bond novels or the TV fantasies of The Man from U.N.C.L.E...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Everybody's Got the Bug | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Today's rival, Boston College, lost its only game of the season, 5-1 to Brown's freshmen last week. B.C. has two strong forward lines, the first centered by high school record holder Tim Sheehy from Minnesota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet Travels to B.C. To Meet Eaglets | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...high 50's cracked the ice at Clarkson's home rink, in Potsdam N.Y. So the game was shifted to St. Lawrence where the rink is a familiar size to the Crimson, and where a host of fiery Larrie fans showed up to root against their arch-rival Clarkson...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Hockey Team Pulls Upset, Chops Down Clarkson, 7-4 | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

...date has not even been set. But Lamar Hunt, 34, fully expects to be invited. It was seven years ago that Texan Hunt, a onetime third-string end at Southern Methodist, tried to buy a National Foot ball League franchise, got turned down-and decided to start a rival league. The American Football League is now a success, and Hunt needs just one thing to make his revenge complete: to sit with 100,000 other fans in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum sometime next month and watch his Kansas City Chiefs beat the best team in the N.F.L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: That Kansas City Beef | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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