Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has won the support of the Federation's 9,000-man army. But even as N.L.F. President Qahtan al Shaabi-who may become the country's first head of state-prepared to meet the British in Geneva this week to discuss the transfer of power, a rival terrorist group, FLOSY (Front for the Liberation of South Yemen), threatened to contest the N.L.F. takeover with violence...
Dorsey raided other bands so mercilessly that one rival, Joe Marsala, wired him: "How about giving me a job in your band so I can play with mine?" Egos clashed within the ranks-Drummer Rich jealously shattered Sinatra's romantic numbers with noisy rim shots until Sinatra exploded and tossed a full water pitcher at him. The touchiest ego of all belonged to the quick-tempered, perfectionist leader. Arrogant, yet gregarious, shrewd at finance, yet at times childlike and yearning for a less complicated life, Dorsey was one of the most powerful and enigmatic personalities...
Equally hard to come by are the scores of games being aired at the same time on another network; the fear is that the rival might have a game more worth watching, and that the viewer, God forbid, would flip the dial. Late in one recent game an ABC announcer cried: "Here's another final in . . . It's -oh, I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to give any more scores...
...under Mike Nichols' direction The Little Foxes didn't seem a tale of nouveau-riche aspirations. Actors used every remark, every glance, every flick of the wrist to overwhelm a rival. The battle, it turned out, was not so much for extra dollars as for some kind of recognition from the family. With the Hubbards you're either one up on everybody--or ignored...
Only John A. P. Good, who joined the Committee in January and has been under frequent fire from Duehay for "cronyism," is in danger of being unseated. Good now stands in sixth place, with 2355 votes, about 300 more than his closest rival, George J. Fanfani...