Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than two decades. Americans and Chinese Communists have regarded each other with a brittle hostility that has shaped Asia into rival power blocs and contributed to two wars. Yet in last week's gestures to the U.S. table tennis team, the Chinese were clearly indicating that a new era could begin. They carefully made their approaches through private U.S. citizens, but they were responding to earlier signals that had been sent by the Nixon Administration over the past two years...
...impromptu sermon was held to be legal even though it caused a commotion in the church. But it was held to be a disturbance of worship for one faction of a congregation to enter a church while another faction was worshipping there and to inform the minister of the rival faction that he could not preach there that day. ( Morris us. State, Alabama, 1887.) Such behavior evidently crossed the line between reasonable interruption and unwarranted disturbance...
...that Orr or any of the Icehouse Gang need worry about security for a while. Already the commanding force in hockey, they are shaping up as a sports dynasty to rival such formerly great teams as baseball's Yankees, football's Packers and basketball's Celtics. Orr, for example, is only 23, Esposito is 29, Sanderson 25 and Hodge 26. At the moment it may still be a debatable proposition whether they are the greatest team the game has ever known. But clearly they will have ample time in which to prove...
...declared Jack Dolph, commissioner of the American Basketball Association, after the breakdown of last year's merger talks with the rival National Basketball Association. Dolph's plan of attack: "To raid any and all talent from any and all leagues." The N.B.A., which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, responded in kind, ambushing the four-year-old A.B.A. at every turn. The result has been a series of messy battles that make pro basketball's Greco-Roman skirmishes under the boards look like child's play...
Many observers are most concerned about the sadistic component of much current pornography. "No civilization, with the possible exception of the Aztec, could produce an art whose sexual ferocity would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that...