Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo, Hughes glimpsed that his mind was not functioning properly. "Bob, I have only three really serious problems that might prevent an activation of the mining properties, the new hotels, the automobile race track, and even a few more Nevada projects. These three are: 1. The new Showboat [a rival Las Vegas casino]. 2. The race track legislation which
...news board cover beats in the University and Cambridge. Write features and sports, news analyses and profiles. Go to Plains with Jimmy Carter, to Washington with Henry Kissinger, to New York with Pat Moynihan. The coverage is as good as you make it--and that means it must rival the best...
...left, wishfully and, as it turned out, rather naively viewing the latter as Socialists who had gone astray. In so doing, he alienated many of the Old Guard Socialists who accused him of undue willingness to compromise, while simultaneously providing an opening for the Trotskyites, who deliberately sabotaged their rival party on the Left. The liberals, on the other hand, regularly deserted the party to vote for "progressive" candidates such as Fiorello La Guardia and Franklin D. Roosevelt whose ties to corrupt and reactionary political machines made it unthinkable for Thomas to endorse them...
Composed on the heels of HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance is one of the best known of the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. The show has very little dialogue; there's nothing here, for instance, to rival the verbal pyrotechnics between the two peers in Iolanthe or the pompous flatulence of Poo-Bah in The Mikado. Pirates' fame derives rather from its score, which is a typical G&S mix of rousing chorus numbers, patter songs and take-offs on Italian grand opera...
...news board cover beats in the University and Cambridge. Write features and sports, news analyses and profiles. Go to Plains with Jimmy Carter, to Washington with Henry Kissinger, to New York with Pat Moynihan. The coverage is as good as you make it--and that means it must rival the best...