Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar, Hague was expelled from school before finishing the sixth grade, went to work at the Erie roundhouse. He came to the attention of Ned Kenny, tavern operator and a factional leader in Jersey City's Second Ward. In 1896 Kenny was involved in a fight with a rival saloonkeeper-politician, and wanted somebody to put up for Second Ward constable. He picked young Frank Hague, gave him $80 and told him to "use your head." Hague did, won the election, went on from there...
...mother met them. From all over the U.S. had come messages of sympathy. Wired Dwight Eisenhower: "Distressed to read on the ticker that your son John has been seriously injured. I send you my most prayerful hopes that he will soon recover." Wired Stevenson's rival, Estes Kefauver: "Terribly sorry to hear of your son's accident. My prayers and thoughts are with...
...offense, but he was good enough. His teammates would purposely fire flat, fast shots that should have bounced off the backboard for sure misses, then Bill would move over, stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...
...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...
...date, the Hitchcock shows have been adequately entertaining if not outstanding. But his grand manner and refreshing potshots at the sponsor have gained the program an impressive 29.5 Nielsen rating, a comfortable four points ahead of its NBC rival, the Goodyear-Alcoa program. For a rating that high, Sponsor Bristol-Myers is more than happy to put up with quips about its commercials...