Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadly than hemlock. Each shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam, a student named Juan, to descent into the garden from his garret room next door...
...answer. When placed against his greatest rival, Frazier, Ali was not only the floating butterfly and the stinging bee, but also the brain versus the brawn. The same was true in the Ali-Foreman fight...
...Washington siege was an explosive mixture of gangsterism, revenge, racial hostility and religious bickering elevated, as the participants proclaimed, to the level of a holy war. The terrorists were members of a sliver-sized religious organization called the Hanafi-a rival of the much larger Black Muslims, a group that has been plagued with violence over the years but has recently become more subdued (TIME, March...
...arrived. Rumors also claimed that Mao's marriage to Chiang Ch'ing was opposed by other party leaders who agreed to it only on condition that she stay out of politics.] Most of this was rubbish, malicious rumors possibly started by Mao's rival Wang Ming and his ilk. Nevertheless, she had something to say about...
...thing about the invasion of Manhattan by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press lord, is that so far the newspaper most improved by his arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing...