Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, from the Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
While Bullard and his teammates were dumping the big Green (1-2-0) last weekend, Brown took time off to tune up with non-league competition. Both the Crimson and the Bruins now own identical 3-0 records for six points. The nearest rival now is Cornell with a 1-1-1 slate and three points in the league...
...perfect Hollywood script. Even down to the debilitating, personal injury junior year in a losing effort against the Crimson's biggest rival, Dartmouth, followed by gratifying vindication senior year, when Tsitsos, sustaining a hip pointer, scored two touchdowns to help Harvard smash the Mean Green...
...memory stinging with the dubious distinction of having lost North America's first rugby-football contest to Harvard just a century before, McGill University's fired-up rugby squad took revenge last Saturday in Montreal, squashing its original rival...
Died. Athina Niarchos, 45, fifth wife of Greek Shipping Baron Stavros Niarchos and ex-spouse of his arch rival Aristotle Onassis; of an apparent heart attack; at the Niarchos town house in Paris. Blonde, willowy Tina had already been through two marriages (14 years with Onassis, ten with John Spencer-Churchill, now the Duke of Marlborough) before her sensational 1971 wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping...