Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weather permitting, the Crimson batmen will open their home season today when they face cross-town rival MIT at 3 p.m. on Soldier's Field...
From the faces of the people and the type of sheep they raised, Marinatos concludes that the action occurred on the coast of Libya. Either allies or colonies of the Minoans, the two friendly cities had apparently summoned naval help against a rival city. If Marinatos is correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest. For these reasons, Marinatos...
...what was to be remembered as the Wilderness Walk. It was an exodus to the new and forbidding lands of the Southwest, where, in 1782, the survivors founded the new nation of Jefferson. There follows, naturally enough, Jefferson's stormy transformation into the C.N.A.'s troublesome rival, the United States of Mexico...
...Saigon, insist that they are not interested in promoting any sudden changes of government in Phnom-Penh. Even so, the President's brother took certain precautions last week. He placed an extra cordon of troops around Sirik Matak's Phnom-Penh villa-ostensibly for his old rival's protection...
...encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general. Lon Non is now the regime's strongman, having won a power struggle with a rival whom most U.S. officials still regard as the only effective administrator in Cambodia, Lieut. General Sisowath Sirik Matak...