Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kelley and Oksanen quickly shook off early challengers, only to pick up a stubborn new competitor-a flop-eared black dog that stayed with them for 14 miles, intermittently skittered across the road, nipped at the racers' heels, and stubbornly eluded state troopers who tried to lure him off the course. At the 16-mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris...
...figure around which Love is attempting to build his boat is senior Parry Boyden, Captain of the crew for the second year. A terrific competitor, Boyden has a special motive for desiring a winning boat: A victory over Yale at New London this year would put him in the select company of strokes who have beaten the Eli four years running--a trick last accomplished by Gerry Cassedy...
...matters turned out, it was not all that simple. Under sharper questioning, he testified that the family's distillery interests had been sold to the Schenley Corp., in which he and a brother held $250,000 worth of stock. A rum-distilling competitor, A. M. Brauer, took the stand to testify that Paiewonsky had once imported Cuban rum and transshipped it to the U.S. mainland falsely labeled as Virgin Islands rum, thereby dodging $1,000,000 in taxes. "He's totally unfit for any position of public trust," concluded Brauer. Answered Paiewonsky: he had indeed bought...
...always has inside stories. He always knows "who is sleeping with whom. Inside every large onion, innumerable smaller and inner onions are waiting to be revealed. You are the prophet of the inner onion." The best road to the top "is often a zigzag-from one competitor to another and back again. Never be ashamed of rejoining your old firm if the salary is right: what a pleasure it is to be among old friends again...
Only a brief interlude of truce interrupted the battling. In 1946, CAB certified Braniff International Airways to fly into South America. Faced with the threat of this new competitor, Pan Am and Panagra joined forces to squeeze Braniff out. Pan Am refused to let Braniff use its airport facilities or communications systems; Panagra warned its personnel not to fraternize with Braniff employees, even bribed a junior official for copies of Braniff's passenger manifests...