Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AMERICAN premiere of Bertolt Brecht's The Days of the Commune is tonight at Sanders, in Cambridge-our own feeble rival to Paris as the setting of the street-barricade species of political activism. One hundred years have passed since the Paris Commune was crushed; the event, a coarse bloom of indigenous French socialism, has been the horror of the bourgeoisie because of its bloodshed and its affronts to property and the delight of the Marxists for reasons roughly similar. Marxists do not relish violence per se, but there is no denying that French history furnishes the most spectacular...
However, McKinnon was probably in worse shape than his rival due to the fact that he had devoured a half pound of chocolate an hour before the match. "You can ask me more questions if you want," he said. "But right now I have to throw...
...state legislature. Political infighting has reached a murderous frenzy, especially in Calcutta. In "the packed and pestilential town," as Rudyard Kipling described it, every day is St. Valentine's Day and every side street as potentially lethal as the Chicago garage where seven gangsters were slaughtered by rival hoods in a Feb. 14, 1929, massacre. Since March of last year, when Bengal's coalition government collapsed and presidential rule was imposed by New Delhi, nearly 1,500 political murders have been committed...
...rival in Rome, Clement has had little chance for a confrontation. Twice last year he and his entourage marched-or rode-on Rome, but he was turned away under an Italian law that added insult to injury: his presence was disrespectful to the Pope...
...Arch-rival Yale, whose team had been playing together for three years, had little trouble with the inexperienced Cantabs. "The best we could do was to force them to call a time out." Price said. That was at 5-5 in the first game, but when play resumed the Elis ran off 25 straight points...