Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile was much slower than expected as co-captain John Quirk lost a heartbreaker to long-time rival Jim McDonald. McDonald ran 4:16.8. Quirk...
...verse play Shenandoah, the prose poems and sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions and out-of-print books have passed through the hands of less than two thousand readers...
...Harvard ping pong team, in its first-ever intercollegiate match, dropped a 2-0 contest Saturday to cross-town rival...
...their own special ways, Landry and Allen rival Shula for pre-eminence in the delicate art and imperfect science of team building. It may be no coincidence that all three men are particularly respected in the trade as coaches of defense rather than offense. Allen's method, which has its living embodiment in the Redskins' Over-the-Hill Gang, is to trade away draft choices and promising rookies for the experienced veterans who can play his brand of hit-and-run, no-mistakes football. Landry, whose emotional range makes Shula seem almost like a stand-up comic, believes...
...literary man," picks up in the second act a presence he lacked in the first, and leads his zany band of pseudo-Dostoevskis. Paul Scharfman and Douglas Hunt, on their futile quest for literary prowess, dressed one and all in outfits inspired by Poe out of Oscar Wilde to rival the literary out-of-itness of Bunthorne and his "perfect" rival, Archibald Grosvenor (Marc Jablon). They all emerge, in Gilbert's words, "perfectly utter...