Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bybee, a former Crum employee in Viet Nam, the general was paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...
...classic ring encounter: boxer against slugger. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 215 lbs., with the elusive speed of a middleweight and a basic hit-and-not-be-hit strategy, Ali may well be the most graceful big man in boxing history. Frazier, who will spot his rival 3¾ in. in height, a crucial 8½ in. in reach, and 10 or so lbs. in weight, is a swarming, wade-in, bull ish brawler who willingly takes a punch or ten for the chance to score with his bludgeoning left hook...
Harvard's Ed Nosal took a disappointing third place in the weight throw, an event he was favored to win. Ed heaved the 35-pound shot 60 feet, leaving him over two feet behind the winner of the event, cross-town rival Tom Sirois of Northeastern...
Even with the gradual disappearance of contact between PL and rival radical groups, there are still instances of this sectarianism; at Harvard, for example, a member of the November Action Coalition who had collaborated with members of SDS on a pamphlet discussing the Center for International Affairs had his political affiliation stricken from the later printings of the pamphlet. Members of SDS had decided that, since they had started and paid for the pamphlet, it should not bear the name of an unfriendly political organization on it-"We were afraid it would buildNAC," one SDS member said later-especially since...
...CAME from a nice high school in Florida. Seabreeze Senior High School. We were known as the Sand Crabs. When rival teams came out on the basketball court to confront our mighty hoopsters the stands roared...