Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Weather was a factor in the contest, as large pools of rain water covering the turf made accurate passing and kicking difficult. Harvard rouges have become accustomed to these conditions, but Brown clearly was not. "These were ideal conditions for us," Ordway said...
There in microcosm was the contest as it had been played out in state after state. The President had set an audacious test for himself when he transformed the mid-term election into a referendum on his presidency and his person. Thus he traveled 17,000 miles through 23 states (Spiro Agnew logged 32,000 miles across 32 states), and he and his party emerged weaker than before. What is astonishing is how badly Nixon and many of his candidates misread the electorate's mood...
...West's most effective weapon in the historic contest with Communism is not its costly and far-flung military establishment, but its superior capacity for economic progress. In a figurative sense, we can only conquer the East with the tender sword of commercial and industrial cooperation, and the human freedoms that go with it. The conquest will be even more tender in that deeply within the psyche it is deeply desired by the victim...
...series of riots, British Intelligence decides to send an investigator, boozy, erratic Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
...last year's U.S. Intercollegiate champion, met in the finals of the consolation round. Adair, the present Canadian and former U.S. national champion, surged back from a two-game deficit to defeat Terrell 5-15, 8-15, 15-11, 15-9, 15-14 in a very tense and emotional contest...