Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Critique of Political Economy he fought savage battles with the Russian Anarchist Bakunin and the German Socialist Lassalles over questions of theory, is accused by his biographer of having been unjust to both men. Outliving his wife, all but two of his children and most of his rival revolutionaries, Marx continued his work until his death in 1883, habitually worked from nine in the morning until midnight. Stubborn, proud, quick-tempered, the one stable relationship in his life, aside from his family, was his friendship with Engels. Their only quarrel came when Engels' Irish mistress died. Hurt because Frau...
...scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien, "one of the few instances of individual terrorism that Napoleon appears to have allowed himself." In this killing Napoleon behaved like a modern gangster taking a rival for a ride; arranged the affair so that responsibility fell on the aristocratic Caulaincourt, who was at tlk, point of taking his life when he heard of Enghien s murder. Second blow came when Caulain-court fell in love with a married woman whose husband had left her, wanted her to get a divorce...
...handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
...into the position of history, it must become increasingly apparent that all the complications raising it above simple colonial expansion are directly the result of the imperialism of Great Britain. Many authorities are ready to ascribe the World War in large part to British determination to crush a challenging rival to naval supremacy. And certainly more authorities of the future will ascribe today's row, whether it end in increased tension or world-wide catastrophe, to British determination to guard her dominions from an enterprising upstart...
When ears had been plugged with cotton, a signal was given--and some thousand students jolted in their beds. With their heads projecting inside the bass bell, the pair swinging the clapper have never been able to hear the tinkling syncopation of their rival bellman. Hence the regular bass booming is completely divorced from the higher pitched trills...