Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came in the middle of his senior year, and permanently interrupted his formal education. Even before the war, Read had begun to think in pacifist terms, and it was only a sense of moral obligation that helped him overcome his qualms. "I regarded the war as a conflict between rival imperial powers," he wrote, "which would bring destruction to the peoples engaged." He accepted a commission...
...Broadcast Music, Inc.) was born 14 years ago when radio broadcasters decided that the venerable ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers demanded too much in performance royalties. As a rival music-licensing agency. BMI had a scrawny infancy: almost all competent U.S. songwriters were members of ASCAP. For a while, until peace was patched up, the networks had to draw heavily on tunes in the public domain-and Stephen Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair became...
With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
...Army's War Crimes Division last week reminded the U.S. of a fact frequently forgotten after long months of stalemate and truce in Korea: on the records, the Communist enemy which waits behind the truce lines is a barbarous enemy, capable of savagery and sadism which rival any atrocities in the history of modern warfare...
...does Notre Dame do it? Many Notre Dame critics-and they are legion, particularly among rival coaches-point out that Notre Dame's bird-dogging alumni fervently flush out football players by the covey. Even nonalumni, e.g., New York's subway variety, feel such a kinship for the Fighting Irish that they adopt Notre Dame and flood it with batches of scouting reports on swivel-hipped high-school backs, blockbusting linemen. Notre Dame acknowledges the bird-dogging tactics of its alumni talent scouts, but points out briskly that, unlike some institutions which pull players out of trees...