Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shuttling back and forth between her paternal grandmother's provincial estate and her mother's modest dwellings in Paris. The grandmother despised her "socially inferior" daughter-in-law and continually tried to separate her from the child. Sand later described herself as "the apple of discord" between the two rival mothers. Recalling one particularly violent separation from her mother, Sand wrote...
...dramatic 4-2 Beanpot win over Boston College was only 48 hours old, but last night at Watson Rink Harvard's hockey team made its fans feel as though that happened 48 years ago when it dropped an uninspired 7-4 decision to Ivy League rival Cornell...
Captain Julia Moore battled to win the decisive point of the final game in a marathon match with her Williams rival, Jan Garvey. Moore had enabled her opponent to control the tempo of play and deadlock their match at two games apiece. In the fifth game Moore persistently dodged the wide-swinging weapon of the black-eyed Ephwoman and exhaustively hung...
...recent years the Times has successfully revamped its entire news coverage, as if its editors had heard a message beyond the grave from its last formidable rival, the New York Herald Tribune, which went down to defeat sloganizing, "Who says a good newspaper has to be dull?" Instead of being a paper where specialists write for specialists, the Times now goes after the general reader. Foreign coverage focuses, and well, on how other people live, their problems and moods, rather than on changes of ministers. Once the rest of the U.S., outside of Washington and New York City, was terra...
...enthusiastic audience, which included a large proportion of emigre Russians, students and critics, fastened on Kremer's gaunt, almost spectral appearance as well as his spellbinding playing. Whatever a Soviet fiddler should look like (Oistrakh was round and beefy, his rival Leonid Kogan short and slender), Kremer does not fit the image. His is more that of an intellectual rock-'n'-roll star badly in need of a square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns...