Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fantasy kept cropping up in spite of well-bred disapproval. Sanctioned reading of the lives of saints offered exaggerated accounts of martyrs' deaths that rival present-day science fiction and horror stories. Then in the 19th century fairy stories began to be socially acceptable--for children. Older people still only enjoyed them vicariously...
...Crimson victory is practically certain: only the margin over the University of Massachusetts and Providence College is doubtful. U-Mass lost to Northeastern, whom the Crimson defeated 21-38 in its first meet this year, and Providence has not been able to rival the Crimson's strength in recent years...
...Then the delegates got down to business: a procedural test of strength over two U.S. resolutions to admit China to both the Assembly and the Security Council but retain a seat in the General Assembly for the Nationalist regime on Taiwan. The U.S. resolutions were up against a rival Albanian motion to throw Taipei's delegates out and seat only the representatives from Peking...
...crosses early in the game, the MIT defense would have been forced to spread out, and we would have scored three times as many goals," he said. "The passing wasn't crisp, but the potential is clearly there, and with a little more practice we will be able to rival any college club in the country," he added...
...recipient of an Academy Award (for Women in Love), Jackson can scarcely be called a revelation. But in certain scenes-when, for example, she orders Bob about in a voice filled with self-abnegation, or when she stands depleted before her "rival"-she surpasses any previous part. As for Peter Finch, this versatile and deeply intelligent performer has never had so fine an hour and a half. In his portrayal, Hirsh betrays no gesture of queerness or bathos. He is merely a man whose affliction is not homosexuality but the tradition that abhors...