Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held on the subcontinent in 1947. As it happened, Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu Maharajah, but its population was predominantly Moslem. When Pakistan invaded in the autumn of 1948, the Maharajah promptly placed the province under Indian rule. Once again, in 1965, it became the battlefield for the rival powers...
...Cornell star rushed for a total of 1375 yards in seven league games, 723 more than his leading rival, Princeton's Hank Bjorklund. Marinaro's total bettered his own league season mark of 1014 yards, set last year...
...Rival Alignments. If Rumania is the maverick of the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact, Bulgaria is its most slavishly loyal member. Nevertheless, the two countries are on good terms, as reflected by the fact that Sofia has refrained from joining in the recent chorus of attacks by Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia against Rumania's independent foreign policy. Even though Bulgaria and Turkey are members of rival military alignments, they are cooperating on several important issues. Sofia is allowing Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin to emigrate to Turkey, and the two countries have just opened a rail line that directly...
...1950s, among other roles, she almost singlehanded revived the ornate bel canto repertory of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. (Bel canto, literally "beautiful singing," more properly applies to the whole vocal art of making the fiendishly difficult sound easy.) It is this repertory that Beverly and her chief coloratura rival, Joan Sutherland (see box, page 81), have since then mastered. Beverly comes by the bel canto tradition not only through her admiration for Callas, but through years of study with the late Estelle Liebling. Miss Liebling was, professionally speaking, a direct descendant of the 19th century's Mathilde Marchesi, the influential...
...unremarkable physique, seized supreme power in his group by a stroke of genius. He grabbed a couple of empty kerosene cans from the author's camp and then charged at the other males, bellowing ferociously and banging the cans together as he came. Appalled by the din, his rivals fled. Swaggering absurdly, Mike challenged Goliath, the dominant male, and in a drama of display and roaring counterdisplay he broke the older male's nerve. After that, whenever the two met, they rushed up to each other like a couple of rival jocks and worked off their anxiety...