Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strasbourg last week, France's Catholic, middle-of-the-road M.R.P. chose a new president. He was Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
...eleven buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra, and is always ready with cocoa when boys drop around...
...Rival from Brooklyn. Even Trainer Jones performs no feeding or training miracles with second-rate horses. Quick to spot the no-goods, he loses no time unloading them. His pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot...
...horses properly, i.e., in races they figure to win. Like Jones, Jacobs is an unusually keen observer, and he has a phenomenal memory, especially for the ailments of other men's horses. But for sheer training-horsemanship, wily Ben Jones (in partnership with able son Jimmy) has no real rival. He has come a long way from Parnell (pop. 490), with more than a few detours...
Both Turner and his mound rival, lefty Charlie Murphy, got off to shaky starts and were hampered by infield errors. A double play got Turner out of possible trouble in the first inning and Harvard went to work on Murphy in its half of the inning. A bunt single by Mort Dunn, walks to Walt Coulson, Herbie Neal, and Cliff Crosby, a single past third by Ernie Mannino plus a wild pitch and a passed ball netted the Crimson three unearned runs...