Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early-bird primary election-the nation's first-next March, they are likely to ask one another, a little worriedly, "How strong is this Dartmouth thing?" The "Dartmouth thing" is the glittering fact that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dick Nixon's only serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, which is to New Hampshire what Harvard is to Massachusetts, only more...
...rival moon shot is off for another month at least. The Atlas ICBM that was especially rigged to boost a 375-Ib. payload around the moon in early October blew up last week at Cape Canaveral during a static test of its engines. It not only destroyed itself but also the second-stage rocket perched on its nose, and wrecked the launching...
...Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo opened its fifth Bienal, with more than 4,000 creations by 1,200 artists from 46 nations round the world...
...rival camp, Chevrolet's Boss Edward N. Cole showed off his compact, rear-engine Corvair. Compared with Ford's Falcon, the Corvair is shorter (wheelbase: 108 in. v. Falcon's 109½ in.), lower (4 ft. 3 in. v. 4 ft. 6½ in.) narrower (66.9 in. v. 70 in.), less powerful (80 h.p. v. 90 h.p.). Compared with the standard Chevy, the Corvair is one-third lighter (2,375 Ibs. v. 3,760 Ibs.), will burn 25% to 40% less gas, sell for about $225 less than the cheapest Chevy when it goes into the showrooms...
...propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's over-whelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine...