Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kudos to writer Jesse L. Birnbaum, who must have caught the Senator's golden thesaurus as it was exhaled. His apt descriptive phrases rival the master...
...Rival Renk responded confidently that "the great majority of Wisconsin's voters will show that they have no use for the hysterical approach of the far right." He was wrong: Kuehn took 57 of the state's 72 counties, won by more than 50,000 votes, and is favored to beat a colorless Democratic candidate, Attorney General John W. Reynolds, in November...
...describe his dog giving birth. Next a woman rings up to say that she has slashed one wrist and intends to slash the other; the man tips off the police, who beat down the door and subdue her. A gang leader calls to announce a rumble with a rival group, and the man arranges to meet both gangs later in the morning to try to settle things peacefully. A former executioner with a bothered conscience calls to discuss capital punishment. All night long the calls pour in-from teen-agers and oldsters, semi-literates and Ph.D.s, unknowns and celebrities...
...Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...
...business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching for a bright young man to preside over its drive for diversification. Scheduled to take over as chief executive of Mannesmann Oct. 1, genial Herr Doktor Overbeck is currently studying the company's operations under...