Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 225 miles to the south, the Delta presents a vivid contrast. Driving down Highway 4, which links Saigon with its rice bowl, buses and military convoys vie irritably for space on the narrow asphalt road, amidst foul-smelling cyclones of black exhaust. There is a dull thud or two of mortar and a burst of machine-gun fire in palm trees half a mile to the south. Women stooping in the paddyfields don't even bother to look up. "Just a couple of guerrillas," sighs the driver...
Soaring competitions are faster, more serious affairs. The pace builds to 120 m.p.h. or more over a triangular course, as the pilots vie for world or national records for speed. "They tend to be introverted, highly individualistic and sure of themselves," says U.S. National Champion George Moffat, 46, a New Jersey schoolteacher. "When they are in the air, they are completely involved. I figure if you haven't made an important decision in the last minute, you are loafing. The air is always trying to tell you something. It is a matter of experience to find out what...
When football training camp opened this Fall, four blacks reported to vie for positions on the squad. From this meager beginning the number of blacks in the program has dwindled. Early on, two players who figured fairly prominently in the Crimson's season plans dropped out. Just before the pre-season scrimmage with Brown, a third left the team, leaving Jiggetts as the sole black on the squad...
...miss such familiar sights as trees, animals and sunrises. "There is nothing that lives or grows," says Submarine Medical Officer William Tansey. "It is all flashing lights, air conditioning and bells. You lose your grasp on the real world." One result aboard submarines on long missions is that sailors vie for space in the sonar room to hear the mating calls of whales or swimming noises of shrimp...
...undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Times, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug cliche vie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...