Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson lacrosse team had to revert to a little Tennis action Saturday, to pull out a 12-11 come-from-behind victory over rival celler-dweller Dartmouth in Hanover...
...Christian Democrats have yet to convert the S.D.P.'s problems to their own profit. Under the lackluster leadership of Helmut Kohl, the C.D.U. has produced no clear platform, economic proposals or solutions of its own. Moreover, Kohl's chief rival for party leadership, the demagogic Bavarian conservative Franz-Josef Strauss, frightens most West Germans even more than the left-wing Jusos of the S.D.P...
...them underground in 1927, Ho spent the next 13 years shuttling between Moscow and China-with stopovers in Chiang's prisons. Behind bars, Ho honed his talent for writing poetry and began developing an avuncular manner that carefully masked his guile and ruthlessness. On occasion he would betray rival nationalist leaders to the French police and then donate the reward to the party...
...however, and admits that his playing time was limited to the local Y.M.C.A. courts. None of this mattered to N.B.A. team owners, who last week gave him a three-year contract and a more than $150,000 annual salary. Should the N.B.A. risk antitrust problems by merging with the rival American Basketball Association, O'Brien may soon find himself making a play for special legislation from Congress...
...been on a picket line together--at the old Phoenix, where they once went on strike against publisher Richard Missner. Missner and the strikers settled after the paper was shut down for a week, but a couple of months later, in July 1972, Missner sold the Phoenix to rival publisher Stephen Mindich of Boston After Dark. Mindich wanted only the Phoenix name and a staff member of two; he bought the paper merely to squeeze out his competition. The abandoned Phoenix staff, consumed by equal measures of pique and principle, decided to start their own paper, the Real paper...