Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concepción's history was tantalizingly familiar to rival treasure hunters. As the admiral ship of Spain's New World fleet in Mexico, it set off for the mother country in 1641 with a year's haul of gold and silver. Heading up the Bahama Channel toward Florida, it sailed into a hurricane that sank several of the ships in its fleet. The Concepción nearly capsized, but a desperate crew righted her by chopping off chunks of mast and rigging. Her gunpowder soaked, the ship was defenseless against pirates, so the admiral in command...
...package," conceded an official of the Teamsters, one of the unions involved. In an editorial, the Post expressed "joyous satisfaction" at the "continued life of our worthy competitor" but noted what it called the Star's "hardball" bargaining tactics. The Star responded with an editorial that thanked its rival for the kind words and observed wryly that the Post had not exactly played "beanbag" with its own unions. After pressmen struck the Post in 1975, the paper replaced them with nonunion workers who are still there, more than three years later...
Although Gromyko carefully avoided making an issue of U.S.-Peking relations in his 18 hours of talks with Vance, the Kremlin is very sensitive to all dealings between its Communist rival and the U.S. After Carter stated on TV that he had received a message from Brezhnev indicating that improved U.S.-Peking ties would neither hurt SALT nor "endanger our good relationship with the Soviet Union," Moscow quickly pointed out that the note had also expressed reservations about the new American policy. According to Tass, Brezhnev had in fact warned that "the Soviet Union will most closely follow what...
Heading a team that is 3-12, currently in the middle of a ten-game losing streak, McLaughlin, the eternal optimist who could rival the best of used car dealers, had only praise for his team...
...penalty-marred game, the Harvard junior varsity hockey team maintained its unblemished record with a 4-1 victory over crosstown rival Northeastern last night at the Boston Arena...