Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record, 6-3, which includes the Yard and most of the River Houses, voted 286-123 for Kennedy over President Carter, and boosted Anderson to an even more impressive 286-40 margin over his nearest rival George Bush...
...They have so many good guys it's ridiculous," one rival coach was heard mumbling to another. "It was nice of them to invite us to their intrasquad meet, though," the other replied...
Carving out a position to the left of former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, a rival for the Republican nomination, Bush blasted as irresponsible rhetoric "a foreign policy of deadlines and blockades." Reagan last month suggested a blockade of Cuba in response to the Afghanistan invasion...
Tensions in Beirut rose at week's end when a parked automobile exploded near the passing car of Bashir Gemayel, military commander of the Christian Phalangists. Gemayel was not in his car; but the blast, apparently the work of a rival Christian faction, killed his two-year-old daughter and seven others...
...revival, audiences and critics were not so much shocked as charmed; the show's story, language and sociological concerns now belong to a distant, tamer era. Yet one aspect of the production looks as daring today as it did in 1957: Jerome Robbins' choreography. When the rival gangs, the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, dance their way through rumbles, murders and even a near rape, one rediscovers Robbins' extraordinary contribution to the American theater. Agnes de Mille was the first to tie Broadway dances to character and plot in the 1943 Oklahoma! (now also...