Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, but Houston's multimillionaire promoter, Judge Roy Hofheinz, is getting closer all the time. He has the Astrodome and baseball's Houston Astros, has developed an "Astroworld" to rival Disneyland. And now he has Paul Haney, 41, formerly NASA's Voice of Apollo. "The voice of the astronauts will become the voice of the Astros," said the judge, as he announced that Haney would become the ball club's vice president for public affairs. Said Haney: "I understand there are three strikes and four balls. I'll learn the rest...
...most difficult integration of them all, that of the sexes." In the premiere of the series, which is perhaps the most cynically commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
Columbia is racing in the meet as well. but it is not expected to be a rival. It's ? Harvard and Penn...
Consequently, l'UEC and l'UNEF were also at the height of their power. During the early years of the sixties l'UEC was without rival in the Latin Quarter, capable of mobilizing thousands in the streets in a few hours. When the OAS began its pro-war terrorist actions in both France and Algeria, and student groups, particularly Jeune Nation, rallied in support of the war, miltants of l'UEC organized the Front Universitaire AntiFasciste, FUA, to physically eliminate these fascists from the Latin Quarter...
...opponents of legalization argue that even if marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, one chemical escape valve is enough for any society. As Beverly Hills Judge Leonard Wolf puts it: "It would not be a particularly healthy situation to unleash upon the public a second intoxicant that would rival alcohol. Alcohol is tremendously dangerous to society, but it has become part of our culture. Is that any reason to invite in a second, equally dangerous substance...