Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest practical contribution to opera, though, as Sills noted when she heard of Callas' death, lay in "erasing the image that all opera singers are fat with horns growing out of their heads." Callas had no horns-except in the eyes of rival singers and every impresario who happened to cross her. But if the world remembers her as tigerish and svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge...
...most Americans, the diesel engine calls to mind a smoke-belching locomotive or 20-ton truck. But in Europe, diesels also power some Mercedes sedans and Peugeots-and this week those cars will get a U.S. rival. General Motors will bring out the first U.S.-made diesel passenger car. It plans to offer the diesel as an optional engine on 50,000 Oldsmobile 88s and 98s in the 1978 model-year...
...Lance had poured "millions" of his bank's funds into Continental Illinois National Bank in hopes of securing a personal loan; buried deep in the story was the fact that he finally got the loan from another Chicago bank, and not from Continental. Not to be outdone, the rival Sun-Times tried to make something of the fact that John Moore, who helped the Carter Administration vet potential appointees, including Lance, for possible conflicts of interest, happened to be a law partner of Lance's own lawyer. Powell called that overblown accusation "a real low point...
...senior year was an All-American success story. He was elected to several high school basketball All-America teams. He led his stellar basketball team over rival Ron Perry's Catholic Memorial to the State Championship. He was lauded in all the local media for his heroics. Scholar-athlete, school hero, interviews, all-expenses-paid-come-see-our-campus-strips, glitter and gold, from rages to riches...
...Jack Anderson's sometimes steamy disclosures and Doonesbury's acid wit. Such censorship, however, can boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract with Doonesbury, ran two of the offending strips anyway...