Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discouraging performance. Sweeny's deft and delicate putter earned him three birdies and sent him three-up. Still, it was Sweeny himself who gave Palmer hope. On the fifth tee he put his arm around his rugged (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) rival and said, "This can't last forever...
...University of Rangoon, where he graduated in philosophy, U Nu wrote sonnets, "mostly to lampoon rival football teams," and read avidly-Shaw, Shakespeare, Havelock Ellis, Karl Marx. Then he became a schoolteacher, wrote some plays with Freudian themes, and directed his sonnets at Mya Yi, the school board chairman's daughter, with whom he later eloped. Under the spell of a learned Rangoon editor named U Ba Cho, the young playwright got interested in both Buddhism and his country's fight for independence. The zealotry of his politics and religion astonished his friends...
...whose members defiantly called each other "Thakin" (or "master"), the word the British expected subservient Burmese to call the white man. U Nu became Thakin Nu. One of his schoolmates and fellow rebels was Thakin Than Tun, who now commands the Communist army in Burma; another Thakin runs the rival Trotskyite or Red Flag Communist army. U Nu drank deeply of Marx, but he mixed his drinks. During these turbulent 19305, he translated into Burmese another book that had influenced him: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...Morning Show, CBS's early-hour rival to NBC's successful Today, started the troublous week with a new star, dapper, 36-year-old Jack Paar, and a new format-fun and games instead of just news and weather. The fun turned out to be slightly repetitious. On his opening show Paar observed: "I went to Phila delphia once on a Sunday, but it was closed." The same joke turned up again on Friday. Paar's idea of early morning games included complaints about the placement of cameras and pretending to misunderstand the off-screen signals...
...said frankly: "It's too late to drop him. I don't want them to say abroad that Italy's cowardly." Of all Mussolini's millions of spouted words, none has a greater ring of sincerity than his cry-from-the-heart against his Nazi rival: "I am tired of acting as his rear light...