Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miscalculations of the rival's intentions are common. In 1960, there was fear of a "missile gap." In 1965, the U.S. concluded that the Russians had given up quantitative arms competition, only to see them spurt forward later. And before leaving office, McNamara acknowledged that, overall, the U.S. had spent too much on weaponry during his tenure because of mistaken estimates of Russian intentions. However, the Russians have accelerated their buildup, tripling their supply of land-based missiles in little more than two years. The U.S. remains ahead in overall nuclear-delivery capability, but Russia continues to close...
...sidewalks of Harvard Square rival those of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue as a parade ground for grubby guerrilla fashion styles. The whole scene is summed up by a sign in the Harvard Coop that sternly warns people not to go barefoot on the escalator (it can be a painful way to pare the toenails). For many undergraduates, alienation is more than a matter of drugs, dirty clothes and long hair. Rather than live within the gilded confines of Harvard's residential houses along the Charles River, a few hundred students have moved into nearby slum tenements like...
...that his high school track coach said that he lacked a "killer attitude," Benka still seems to perform best when under pressure. He went into last week's IC4A's with a sprained ankle and came out with a winning throw more than a foot better than his closest rival...
Outside his party, Balaguer has another potential rival in Career Diplomat Hector Garcia-Godoy, now Ambassador to the U.S., who as provisional President helped guide the Dominican Republic back to peace after the 1965 civil war. He also faces a rightist challenge by former General Elias Wessin y Wessin, a major instigator of the coup that backfired into war and brought U.S. intervention. Wessin recently returned from three years in exile to lead an ultraconservative party...
...late 1940s, the Abstract Expressionists were admired by only a few hardy critics, loathed by rival painters, and ignored by virtually every museum and collector in the country. With his fellows, De Kooning hung out in grimy Greenwich Village cafeterias, endlessly debating the new esthetic and just as endlessly revising the canvases in his studio. De Kooning sought to capture on canvas the continuing essence of the creative act of painting itself. To do this, he jettisoned polished finish in favor of apparently raw brush strokes, which in reality were painstakingly executed and frequently reworked. On another level, he strove...