Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Confederacy. An intelligent and politically shrewd lawyer, Jordan won respect in the state senate for helping to enact Texas' first minimum-wage bill and create a department for community affairs, designed primarily to deal with the problems of urban minorities. Her admirers, who include Lyndon Johnson, expect her to rival Shirley Chisholm as the nation's top spokeswoman for the black community...
PENN-COLUMBIA -- Take heart, Brown. Your old rival for the Ivy League cellar, Pennsylvania, has beaten Harvard in football and hockey and snaked away Harvard's most handsome, popular professor, Edwin C. Banfield, all in the same year. The Quakers have also beaten Princeton and Yale on the weekends preceding and following their humiliation of Harvard, and they may go on to achieve the impossible -- losing to Brown and winning the Ivy League title in the same season. Penn...
...Crimson, ranked higher in the national ratings than it has ever been at comparable stage in the season (Ivy rival Penn is second, defending national champion Howard is first), will probably regain All Ivy forward Felix Adedeji for the contest...
...daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town's majority, are law-abiding citizens, but a few of them have lately terrorized Gary with mob shootouts that rival New York City's Mafia battles in sanguinary savagery...
...decided to portray the Sicilian overlord Salvatore Maranzano in an accent that is pure Transylvanian. Maranzano divides the gangs all over the country into families, then stands back and watches the fun, quoting Julius Caesar and letting the profits accrue until he himself is finally eliminated by an enterprising rival. Various beatings, tortures and murders ensue, although The Valachi Papers reserves its worst maulings for the audience...