Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upset of Company D got the Gold Coasters off to a good start last Wednesday. Adams is now a half game ahead of its rival, Lowell, which dropped the second game of yesterday's double-header to Company...
...planes, bound on fateful missions, went opposite ways in Europe's troubled air last week. One plane was carrying General Charles de Gaulle to Moscow. The other carried his most formidable rival, Maurice Thorez, Secretary of the French Communist Party, from exile in Moscow to Paris. Three weeks ago De Gaulle had cleared the way by pardoning Thorez for military desertion...
...arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number is 9,019,314, and by 1980 it is estimated that double that number will reach 65, even make it past the classical three-score...
...Republican Opposition. "Carthage must be destroyed," cried the dour elder Cato in speech after speech in the Roman Senate. Perhaps it was inevitable that Rome should wipe out its great rival for control of the west Mediterranean basin. But once the Carthaginian menace had been removed, a certain vital tension disappeared from Rome's internal life. With no immediately compelling external problem, Romans started fighting each other...
...Crimson met its first formidable rival in W.P.I. but came out a 13 to 0 victor, thanks to superlative line play. Although a 5 to 1 margin was piled up in ground gaining, the backfield missed the speed of the ineligible Jenkins and injured Schultz...