Vieing

After a pause of a minute or two, however, the firing recommenced with redoubled earnestness, the Bombay and Bengal artillery vieing with each other, and the enemy vieing with both.

Helen and Mary Hathaway Fell, ’25, have been vieing for the honor of living in the smaller town and Mary, whose place of residence at present, Sumpter, boasts some 250 people loses by a large margin, according to Helen in referring to the population of Culver City.

Ludlum's 1979 novel is set during the cold war era and centres on rival US and Russian spies who have been vieing for supremacy for several decades.