Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your description of the division of France into two parts [June 3], one monopolizing the bonne vie and therefore voting for Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the other one struggling and consequently backing François Mitterrand, is far too simple to be right...
...should stiffen a bit tomorrow when the Crimson shirks its Ivy League opponents and runs in the Greater Boston Championships. Northeastern and Boston College appear to be the teams most likely to challenge Crimson city supremacy. After the Boston contest, several Crimson thinclads will journey to Philadelphia Friday to vie in the annual Penn Relays Carnival...
...week-on little cat feet. The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered that, beginning April 1, brokers who are members of the New York or American Stock Exchange must substitute flexible rates for their old fixed commissions on trades under $2,000. The idea is to get more firms to vie vigorously for small transactions and to give customers of modest means a saving on trading costs. Yet, reflecting the caution of the ailing securities industry, the effort got off to a sluggish start. Only a few major brokerage firms unveiled cut-rate commission plans-and those were hedged about...
...Acapulco Bay aboard H.M.S. Jupiter. In fact, the most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that the Queen Mother, Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy would vie for attention with Michael York, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan and Geraldine Chaplin at the London premiere of The Three Musketeers. But on that night they were all upstaged by a commoner. Accorded an unprecedented honor and ranked No. 4 on the official program was Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, currently ranked...
...audience's patience. Sheridan milks his characters for everything they're worth, which isn't more than a few idiosyncrasies. And the plot's chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...