Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consider former Governor Ross Barnett, 69, an archsegregationist who wants his job back. He urges listeners to read Theodore Bilbo's Separation or Mongrelization of the Races-Take Your Choice, insists that "the South has been right all along," and twits Congressman John Bell Williams, a formidable rival, for playing footsie in Washington with "Daddy-Bird Johnson and Bobby-Sox Kennedy." But he also acknowledges that "the law must be obeyed, and advances made in the state's economy and educational program...
...Abyssinian-have rights to the Holy Sepulcher; for years the basilica has been near collapse because the churches cannot agree on how to make the necessary repairs. The interior of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, co-owned by Orthodox, Catholics and Armenians, is a tasteless clutter of rival altars, lamps, candelabra, icons and statues. In addition, many of the shrines are ringed by bazaars and barkers, hawking everything from plastic crosses to soft drinks...
...leader who dares to open negotiations with Israel. Though Said is a better propagandist than politician, it was a fool hardy Arab leader indeed who could ignore his warning; the sentiments are shared by a large part of the population. Trapped by their own propaganda, split once more into rival factions and disappointed in their Russian allies, the Arabs seem no closer to any form of negotiation with Israel than they were when the "six-day" war ended six weeks...
...dressed middle-class merchants and shoeless old men in tattered togas last week formed civil defense groups in besieged Biafra, the secessionist Nigerian state that is under attack from federal forces. Largely Ibo tribesmen, they joined together to resist an invading army that was made up mainly of the rival Hausa tribe, whose members last year slaughtered thousands of Ibos in Northern Nigeria. The Biafran volunteers searched automobiles at roadblocks, practiced grenade throwing and ambushing. At a Port Harcourt automotive assembly plant, Biafran engineers rolled out their first homemade tanks-trucks plated with armor. Mechanics in the railroad repair shop...
...Paris newspaper account of a monkey who, "after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage." Humbert Humbert is a prisoner of lust. He imprisons first Lolita, then his deadly rival Quilty. Later he writes his memoirs from prison. For Nabokov, the book's theme is love-and the necessity to liberate love from "its extreme and seemingly mutually exclusive opposite, lechery." Eventually Humbert Humbert is able to face the darkest images of death and debauchery in his past...