Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation willing to help rebuild Germany after Hitler would seem unlikely in the long run to refuse aid to North Viet Nam. There are also strong practical arguments for aid, since it would maintain some U.S. influence, as against that of Russia and China, and could turn the rival forces to peaceful pursuits in accordance with the truce settlement. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott may be right in his prediction that "after everyone has made his pitch," then Congress probably will approve the money for reconstruction...
...Clearly, Taoka has come a long way since that day in 1937, when, as a small-time hoodlum on the Kobe docks, he finished off a rival gang member with one downswing of his samurai sword -the first step in his rise to the position of Japan's No. 1 oyabun...
...match away from losing a 40-game winning streak and the Ivy League championship, the Harvard racquetmen played no-holds-barred squash Saturday to edge their previously unbeaten rival Penn...
...WHAT SAVES this production? Its comedy, for one thing. Although the play has tragic elements--in a surprise ending, for example, Henry IV stabs his former rival--the comic aspects come through most clearly, and the final impression is certainly not one of sadness. Much of the humor is contained in one-line comments, as when Henry asks Matilde to let the "bowels of compassion" within her be moved by his plea (I wonder how that went in the original Italian), or when he criticizes his servants for revealing the secret of his sanity: "You jeopardized your own position. After...
Saturday night the Crimson will travel to New Haven to face the Yale Bulldogs. It will be the third meeting between the rival teams this year, and Harvard has won the first two. The Elis gave Harvard a real struggle last weekend and should be tough in their own backyard...