Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cloistered, xenophobic Burma. Particularly in the uncharted "Golden Triangle," where a slice of northeastern Burma meets Thailand and Laos, the situation is a demographer's and political analyst's nightmare. Remnants of a Kuomintang army that fled China at the time of the Communist takeover vie with independent warlords for control of the region's rich opium crop, while armed independence movements representing a bewildering host of ethnic and tribal groups periodically challenge the Rangoon government of General...
...rushed down to Veteran's Stadium to watch not the Phillies, but the professional vendors. I noticed two types of real hawkers: the 40-year veterans who sell year-round, and the college kids from the Mainline area who work from May to September. I realized I couldn't vie with the aging hustlers. These lower-deck professionals had techniques and aisle space-rights not to be violated by any rookie...
Freshman standouts Steve Brown and Jeff Campbell will vie for top spots in the 880 and mile events. Brown enters into a stacked field of half-milers, where he can look for some revenge after last week's disqualification in the heptagonal meet at Cornell...
...packed its rations, shouldered its rifles and marched south to free its country as American bombers droned overhead. The North Vietnamese issued one general directive, in the form of a poem, part of which follows, "Liberation fighter, spring in Vietnam is ineffably beautiful. Tet is unbelievably epic. Apricot blossoms vie with each other to cheer your feats. Swallows take wing, telling our countrymen north and south of your deeds. Liberation fighter, let off your gun this spring instead of the usual firecrackers. And ornament Vietnam's spring with everlasting beauty." And the American bomber pilots, peering at the tiny figures...
Harvard's frustrated varsity meatmen will vie for their second win today at U Mass's Boy den Gym in a triangular meet against U Mass and national power Hofstra University...