Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laris led most of the way but with 500 yards left, Mark Mullin took over. He held off a rally by his long-time rival to win in a fast 4:17.7. But Jennison finished third, ahead of Eddie Meehan, and Dartmouth was still in contention...
...giants of Communism no longer seriously bothered to conceal the extent of their quarrel, but in a curious, ritualistic way, they continued to insult by proxy. Each directed its heaviest invective against the rival's hangers-on and harassed those hapless party figures who symbolized the opposing ideological camps...
...ignores the new-style Communist imperialism. Nehru values Menon highly as a friend, confidant and traveling apostle. He admires his provocative intelligence, uses him as a shock absorber to take attacks that might otherwise be directed at him or his government. "Menon is like a toy car," says a rival. "Nehru sets its pace by winding it and watching it go around. Whenever the car comes to an obstacle, Nehru removes the obstacle from its path and rewinds...
...China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw from Indian territory "in the interests of peace and socialism...
Swifty worked as an agent for M.C.A. for ten years before serving in the Army Air Corps as an administrative officer during World War II. Hearing that the corps was anxious to produce a Broadway show to rival This Is the Army, he offered unsolicited help, announcing to the top brass that he could get Moss Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, etc.-none of whom he knew. Then he confronted Hart in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza and told him that General Hap Arnold needed his services. Then he told Arnold to wire Hart. The result was Winged Victory-eventually worth...