Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cease-fire in Lebanon sometimes seems like wide-open civil war anywhere else. During the first half of the latest ten-day truce (the 24th in five months), more than 300 people were killed in fighting between the rival Maronite Christians and an alliance of Moslems, leftists and Palestinian fedayeen. That brought the death total to more than 13,000 as Lebanon this week marks the first anniversary of the outbreak of the civil...
...four-hour-long track meet marked the first time that Harvard and Radcliffe track teams have co-hosted a rival school. However, Kevin Barnes '76, manager of Harvard track, and Robert "Pappy" Hunt, the Radcliffe coach, both stressed that the two meets were held jointly for the "purpose of economy." Both agreed the schedules of the two teams prevent any more joint combined meets...
Most of the cast fill their roles with 18th century gusto. Teresa Toulouse, for example, combines the vengefulness of Gilbert and Sullivan's jilted Katisha with the coarse bumptiousness of Eliza the Flower Girl in her characterization of Lucy Lockit, Polly Peachum's rival for the love of the unfaithful highwayman Macheath. Joanna Blum as Mrs. Peachum also plays her role to the hit. Unscrupulous and unmarried, she jerks around the stage, hands on hips, spitting out cynical asides to the audience...
Forego has won at all times of the year and has consistently carried near-record weights in doing so. He beat chief rival Wajima in the September 1975 Wood-ward Stakes by almost two lengths, finishing a strong season marred only by a late injury. The injury is a recurring swelling of the ankle called sesamoidisis which the horse has had since birth...
...meter mark, Harvard had stretched its lead over the field to a full boat-length, forcing the once hopeful rival crews to trail it in traditional fashion down the 2000-meter course...