Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...augment reporting done on the scene earlier, Scott monitored rival claims broadcast by Amman radio and by fedayeen outlets in Damascus and Baghdad. His efforts were supplemented by the contributions of both news and analysis from Correspondents James Bell, John Shaw and Wilton Wynn in Rome and from Marlin Levin in Jerusalem and Monica Dehn in London. Drawing on State Department sources in Washington, Diplomatic Correspondents Herman Nickel and B. William Mader were able to supply important assessments...
...illustrate what I have in mind-During your freshman year this University experienced what I have been told was its first strike by employees. It was occasioned essentially by a contest for control between the leadership of two rival unions. But that is not the way it was reported in what I remember as one of the first of the scores of SDS propaganda leaflets to which we-all of us at Harvard-have since been continuously subjected...
...Hesse and Bavaria in November could result in a coalition crisis that could end the Brandt government as presently constituted. Even so, Brandt's foreign policy seems to enjoy solid support among a large majority of West Germans, who grew weary of the cold-war posturing of the rival Christian Democrats...
Diplomatic Touch. As army chief, Huang has become an obvious rival to Chou Enlai, whose own power has declined along with that of the party and the civilian government. Personally, the two men could hardly be more dissimilar. Chou is urbane and sophisticated. Huang, born to a farm family in central Hupei province, seems to glory in a sort of peasant earthiness, much as Mao does. He likes to brag about his lack of book learning. "Even if you turn me inside out, you won't be able to find a drop of ink," he says. Huang normally smothers...
...rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn off a potential rival. The kind of sound a cricket makes depends on the species, the air temperature and the circumstances in which the individual insect finds himself; There is no telling what loud sounds of pain or pleasure a cricket might make if he found himself decked out like Walt Disney...