Word: rival
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...