Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line in the provincial city of Santa Cruz, he got word that a right-wing military force led by his own army chief of staff had seized power, declaring that it would give Bolivians "the destiny they deserve." By the end of a wild week, both Ovando and the rival military men were out. In power, following a seriocomic sequence of coup and countercoup, was Latin America's latest left-wing military regime...
...also received calls from Marty Liquori, Pottetti's rival in Eastern high school competition. Liquori was at the time planning to go to Penn as part of a great group of distance runners. When Pottetti and others failed to show an interest, Liquori was lured to Villanova, where he became the world's top miler...
Harper's, the traditional rival of the Atlantic, has made similar changes under its imaginative editor in chief, Willie Morris. And as each magazine continues to break away from old patterns, comparisons are made. Partly because Morris is highly visible on the New York scene and partly because Harper's looks more daring (lots of leg and very little miniskirt in a Women's Lib cover last February), many people in the publishing business regard Harper's as the "hotter" book. But if "hot" means popular with advertisers, the Atlantic has more Fahrenheit. Including the October...
...winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse." And he relates their schemes with delight: freaking out Eugene McCarthy and a convention of college editors; leafleting LBJ's favorite church; roaming Washington's streets on the night of Martin Luther King's death; and , in the climax, outwitting the rival faction of the LNS with a daring daylight raid on its offices...
...They finally left and didn't bother us except for throwing small rocks at my friend's car as we drove off. Last winter they made a big score when they donned masks, armed themselves with chains, and beat the shit out of two carloads of kids from a rival high school. So when some of us greased up this summer in honor of rock and roll we got lost in the crowd...