Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first two Monday nights in February. Four rival schools--Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern--four anxious hockey teams, four tense hockey games: one winner, three losers. A hockey cathedral, Boston Garden, which first opened its doors to the sport when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, rattled by the din of 15,000 fanatics and an occasional passing Green Line hulk outside. Blizzard optional. The Beanpot...
...something that no one who was there will ever forget. A team effort rivaling that of the Harvard football squad in its upset of Yale this past fall. An unexpected victory over an arch-rival that literally made a team's entire season a success...
...most exciting race of the afternoon, and a very impressive performance, came when long-distance specialist Maureen Gildea took the 1000-yard freestyle in an Ivy record-setting time of 10:20.49, only one-hundredth of a second ahead of Princeton rival Ann Habernigg, who touched the pads...
Yale evened its Ivy mark at 2-2, and moved to an 8-5 total. The blow hurt Harvard particularly because the Crimson topped the ancient rival twice last year...
After the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1853, the Dutch church was fervently traditionalist. As of 1939, the tiny country produced fully 11 % of Catholicism's missionary priests. But during World War II rigid lines between Catholics and Protestants began to break down, when the two rival faiths were thrown together in resisting the occupying Nazis. In the mid-1960s and early '70s, encouraged by the mood of innovation that followed the Second Vatican Council, the attitudes of many Dutch Catholics changed radically...