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Word: rivalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are the ones about a rapist who preyed on the elderly, the hood who stuffed a rival into a laundry dryer, a sort of Jack the Shaver who depilated his victims with a razor, and the tale about the monsignor who died in a brothel: the police dressed him and propped him in his car, which they parked at a shopping center. It was piously announced that the prelate had suffered a heart attack while reaching for his glove compartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Harps | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

After completely outplaying their less experienced opponents yesterday, the Crimson women must prepare themselves for tougher games against Stonehill on Friday and arch-rival Yale in two weeks. Judging from recent form, they should fare extremely well. If they can remember how to play their old positions, that...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Cook Curry, 5-0 As Batter Tallies Twice | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

Harvard takes on Ivy arch-rival Yale in New Haven on Wednesday (face-off time 2 p.m.) before hosting Penn next weekend. "We're executing very well," adds Field, "but we have to give 200 per cent in order to beat a quick, tough Yale team...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Women's Field Hockey Team Ties It (Again!) With Brown | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner has batteries of pins in both his Los Angeles and Chicago mansions and is negotiating with Bally, the GM of pin, to produce a Playmate machine with Bunnies on the back glass. (Ironically, D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally's chief rival, produced a model called Playboy back in 1932, when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pinball Redux: The Hottest Games | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis team wound up its fall season with a decisive 6-1 victory over local rival Boston College yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Netwomen End Perfect Season By Soaring Over B.C. Eagles, 6-1; Martha Roberts Stars | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

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