Word: rival
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others, he inserted advertisements in newspapers inviting correspondence with fellow idealists. Four answered. Three of them later turned out to be "reactionaries." The fourth, a skinny youth called Li Lisan ("who listened to everything I had to say and then went away") was soon to become Mao's rival for the leadership of Chinese Communism...
Last summer, in Harbin, Asian Communist delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
...Chinese people have borne, driven off or absorbed, many a conqueror-the Huns and Mongols, the Tartars and Manchus. But the conqueror who, in the name of a grandiose world conspiracy, prepared to take over China last week could rival all of these. Mao Tse-tung knew that. Once, while flying over a civil war battlefield on which his men fought blindly for what they thought was the end of misery, Mao had written a poem. Excerpt...
...cameras got action right away. Louis St. Laurent rose to make his first appearance in Parliament as Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...
...radio's fiercely fought Battle of Sunday Night, CBS seemed to be winning over rival NBC. In every time segment from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to last week's Hooperatings, CBS had piled up a commanding lead. Jack Benny, moving from NBC to CBS, not only carried most of his listening audience with him but appeared to have bolstered CBS shows before & after his program. On CBS at 6:30, ear-jarring Spike Jones had climbed a few pegs, while Ozzie & Harriet on NBC dropped a few. Horace Heidt, hastily switched by NBC from...