Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were more than merely sorry. Throughout Poland, the continuing attempts of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime to sidetrack the millennial festivities have created a darkening mood of resentment that is spreading from the deeply religious to those who normally take a more impartial stance. The government has staged rival celebrations, temporarily detained bishops and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski himself, dragged individual citizens off to police stations on grounds that they had been "planning to take a trip to Czestochowa," or "standing by" during anti-regime demonstrations. Tens of thousands of peasants have been left by the roadside, in their Sunday...
Douglas Watson is right to ham up the part of Pistol, since it was written as a satire on the bombastic acting style of a rival theatre troupe from which Shakespeare had seceded. Watson's gestures often clarify the bawdy puns; and, after striding a barrel as though it were a horse, he engages in a duel so vigorously that he discovers at the end that his groin flap has fallen down...
...began hitting back, the local cops, until then languid spectators, broke it up. "We got to go back," said a shaken King afterward. "This is the meanest town in the country." The marchers did return under heavy police guard, but they also learned that Mississippi had another town to rival Philadelphia for meanness...
Bigger Competitor. Lockheed's rival in the competition is Boeing Co., which has not won a major military plane or missile award since 1958. Boeing is betting on a swing-wing model whose wings tuck back at high speed and open out for landings. Called the Boeing SST 733, it could achieve the same speed and stratospheric altitude as Lockheed's 2000. Boeing is building a mockup, plans to display it around September. The plane has just undergone major modifications, making it heavier (300 tons v. Lockheed's 250 tons), longer...
...outdone, the rival Dutch have announced a fiveyear, $218 million plan to create deepwater berths for 165,000-tonners at Rotterdam...