Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal qualification appears to be that he is, as tradition requires, a member of the Sunni, the largest Moslem sect. Assad, who appointed himself secretary-general of the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, demonstrated that he was really running Syria by ordering the previous secretary-general and his rival for power, Major General Salah Jadid, into exile in Egypt...
...coveted as it used to be. Perle Mesta, eightyish, the hostess who is a household word, is back on Washington's social barricades again after an eclipse during the Kennedy years brought on by her support of Nixon in 1960. Also back is Mrs. Mesta's onetime social rival, Gwen Cafritz. Atop the whole pecking order, as she has been for so many decades, is Alice Roosevelt Longworth?daughter of President Teddy, widow of a noted Speaker of the House.* She rules the roost with her crisp wit, her well-nurtured intolerances and her long memory...
...ungodly margin," said coach John Lee. The Crimson finished the competition with 125 points as compared with 55 for their nearest rival, M.I.T. Third place went to Boston University. followed by Tufts, Boston, College and Brandies, respectively...
...nakedness, "some are fancy on the inside, some are fancy on the outside"; a typical low-keyed show is devoted to a trip to a hospital or to the barber. In each case, the child is treated as a person of intelligence and sensitivity�unlike the audiences on most rival shows. "It is no secret that commercial children's TV has reached an all-time low," Rogers testified at Senate hearings last year. "At best, most of these programs are a waste; at worst, some of them encourage pathology...
...this phase of German art has had a raw deal. To think of 19th century painting is automatically to think French. A grand panorama rises in the mind's eyeDavid to Delacroix, Courbet to Manet and the Impressionists. But though the German Romantic painters did not rival the achievements of the French, Yale's show does remind viewers that "mainstreams" are not the only art worth enjoying...