Word: rivalling
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...Republican, the minority leader of the Senate and a potential presidential rival in 1980, Howard Baker of Tennessee has been quite a bit of help to Jimmy Carter. He played a crucial role in getting the Panama Canal treaties passed, despite threats from the right wing of his own party to torpedo his presidential ambitions. He persuaded Senate Republicans to support Carter's proposal on plane sales to the Middle East, and outraged the powerful Jewish lobby. Last week, smarting from the blows he received over the plane deal, Howard dropped in at the White House for a chat...
Moreover, it is shared by Andover's great rival and sister school, Phillips Exeter Academy (965 students, $47 million endowment), founded by Samuel Phillips' uncle, John Phillips, in 1781. But for years, democratic was the last word used to describe most New England boarding schools. No longer...
America's contribution to the language of modern architecture has been immense. But little sign of that could be seen in its capital, Washington. Where were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center...
...feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace was easily defeated in the Democratic runoff. His own judgment of the race was that he had been "out-segged" by his victorious rival, John Patterson. It would not happen again...
...track, Affirmed was sweet-tempered in the stables-a hot-running Thoroughbred with the manners of a house pet. He was the second betting choice in one of the best Derby fields in recent memory. Favorite Alydar was the kind of muscular late finisher that gives homestretch nightmares to rival trainers. Believe It had speed and was developing staying power. Sensitive Prince was a speed horse undefeated in six starts...