Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish as Joseph Musumeci, Larry ("Big Lollypop") Carna, Joseph ("Little Lollypop") Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named Joseph Profaci, who stands high enough in the underworld to have attended the convention of hoods in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. True to their leader's image, the Gallo mobsters laughed off their arrests...
...since Stalin's death three months earlier had the men at the top seemed so jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
...addition, the Crimson will be without the services of three or more of its regular starters. Brown is at full strength, and boasts the nearest Ivy rival to Ohiri in sophomore center forward Al Young. Young set a freshman scoring record of 25 goals last season and gives the Bruins all their scoring punch...
...Biblically out of love with the Lord. He fails to heed the Lord's command to kill some idolatrous Hebrew tribal chiefs. There is an extenuating fleshly circumstance. One of the chief's daughters is a pelvic marvel (Lorraine Egypt) who does a temptress dance to rival Salome's. More pertinently, and impertinently, Gideon pleads that his pity for fellow humans is above God's law. He asks the Lord to be released from the "covenant of love." arguing "You are too vast a concept for me." Sadly, ironically, the Lord concludes: Man wants...
...spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked up his phone and dialed Auburn University's athletic office, trying to clear up a ticket hassle. "Let me speak to Coach Ralph Jordan, please," he asked. Jordan was not yet in. Neither was Ticket...