Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese expected the U.S., as a matter of course, to uphold their ownership of the Senkakus as it has done in the past. Instead, Washington last month suggested that rival claims to the islands "should be settled by the parties themselves." What this means, the State Department insists, is merely that the Chinese should address their claims directly to Tokyo. Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato and many of his colleagues took the ambiguous message to mean that the U.S. was willing to sacrifice their interests if necessary because it did not want to offend Taipei or Peking...
Harvard opens defense of its Eastern League baseball title today in New York against a veteran Columbia nine that has been tabbed by rival coaches as the most improved team in the conference...
...light of China's weakness at the turn of the Twentieth Century, Liang believed that a liberal republican government achieved by revolutionary means, as favored by his rival Sun Yat-sen, would be a disastrous failure. According to Liang, China had no tradition of "enlightened self-interest" among all its people that would promote the public good...
Last week marked the end of the career of Wooden's only rival in the pantheon of college basketball coaches, Adolph Frederick Rupp. After 42 years as coach at the University of Kentucky, the rambunctious Rupp-often called "The Baron" and sometimes "Old Rupp and Ready"-finally and reluctantly capitulated to age. He passed the university's mandatory retirement age of 70 this past season, and a statewide campaign by well-wishers failed to have the rule waived. Largely because of his long tenure at Kentucky, Rupp's teams have won more games (879) than Wooden...
...Groove. By contrast, Columbia's record rival RCA made an early decision to hold out for a disk that was completely "discrete"-the industry's word for precise separation of all four channels. Like Columbia, RCA aimed for a compatible new disk that would be playable on existing stereo equipment without loss of fidelity. Last week RCA was busy spreading the word to the industry and press alike that it had perfected just such a disk. The company will begin issuing the new LPs in May, at the same price ($5.98) as stereo, and soon hopes to release...