Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner did Billy Knowland arrive at Alameda High School than he set about organizing a student Conservative Party ("Economy But Not False Economy"). He held nearly every school office, graduated as president of his class and of the student body. His rival candidate has a rueful memory of the occasion: "I was an athlete and a popular guy. Billy didn't play anything. But he knew how to make other kids take him seriously...
...want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj supporters. In 1956, 86 Algerians were murdered in this bitter civil war in Paris, and the rival gangs celebrated New Year's Day with a fusillade that killed six more...
...reproduction without biological bother," and in extreme cases, a record collection becomes a "symbolic harem." Significantly, says Psychiatrist Bowes (married, no children), an addict's wife almost always demands that the volume be turned down: "Perhaps in the male's interest in hi-fi she senses a rival, as shrill and discordant as herself...
...part series, with a preface by Hoover, on the FBI's top cases, from Al Capone to Brink's. The only major wire service that ignored the story was Hearst's International News Service. When the Philadelphia Bulletin signed up for the A.P. series, the rival Philadelphia Inquirer turned out its own six-part saga, sold it to several other papers, including Hearst's New York Journal-American and Los Angeles Examiner...
Bill Morris, Jim Cairns, the Heptagonal champion, and Dick Norris make the 1,000 another strong event, while Dave Norris, moved down from the two-mile, Dave McLean, and Bill Thompson could take two places in the mile. Heptagonal champion Pete Reider, tangles again with his old rival Brew, in what shapes up as one of the most exciting races of the meet...