Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor's new leader turned to his chief rival. "Let bygones be bygone," said Gaitskell. Aneurin Bevan smiled and pledged his support. But there was no jubilation; no one headed for the bar to celebrate. They had rejected Bevan because he was too unreliable and would "frighten the country off us." Sadly they had rejected Morrison because he had become too old during the long years as Crown Prince. Gaitskell had been chosen in cold rationalism, not hot enthusiasm...
Broken Mold. No one knows when Fra Angelico first began to show the unmistakable signs of genius. Only a year after he took his final vows, his convent was thrown into turmoil as a result of the rival claims of three Popes. The Fiesole monks saw their prior arrested, and fled for safety to Foligno, then to Cortona. But from this nine-year period of exile, no record of Fra Angelico's activities has survived. One theory is that, on the Dominicans' return to Fiesole, Fra Angelico worked under Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk famed for his manuscript...
This list will allow schools to determine on what basis rival schools have offered scholarship awards to mutual candidates. Neither the Service nor the CEEB purports, however, to police awards...
...Capone. Throughout his trial Broady coolly denied any wrongdoing. All of his wiretaps, he maintained, had been strictly legal-authorized by his clients for their own telephones. He had "never heard of" the raided apartment, and besides, the whole case had been a frame-up by a rival private eye. In the course of his testimony Broady offered several new revelations. In January 1953, two months before she became Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce's telephone had been tapped, he said-but he was unable to give the name or the motive of the tapper...
...London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels. Some record shoppers will buy the bright, cellophane-wrapped Angel albums for the label alone. Although Angel's sales are still well behind Victor and Columbia, the company now ranks fourth in classical LP sales (just behind London), and rival record executives have come to regard the muscle-flexing cherub nervously...