Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from that." Communism explicitly denies an objective moral law as that is understood in the Jewish, Christian and Moslem religions. Dulles is convinced that the evil of Communism flows from this denial, and that the struggle against Communism will be lost if it is considered merely a contest between rival power blocs...
...prosperous Times suffered little from the strike, since it was covered by strike insurance and had an excess-profits-tax cushion. (But another dispute with three mechanical unions prevented the paper from coming back on the streets immediately after settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs...
...full-blown version of the theme song of the popular radio-TV show sponsored by Chesterfield. Last week Dragnet was still 19th on the Hit Parade listing, although Variety now put it second among disk jockeys, third in retail, second on coin machines. Would the Hit Parade play a rival cigarette's theme song if it reached the Lucky Strike top seven? "Certainly," snapped a Lucky executive. "We couldn't possibly not play it. Our whole reputation is involved." Is the tune . likely to make it yet? "I don't know. We've seen some funny...
...epicurean Roman grudgingly won over to evangelical Christianity, highborn Burton is the successful rival of Prince Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek slave (Victor Mature), Burton is exiled to Palestine, where he lolls decadently in the baths and drinks wine while his slave Mature becomes a convert to the new religion...
...volume history of the age of the fiscal and political hotbed of Florence, where those hardy perennials, the Medici, first reared their brilliant heads. Item: he recites with delight how the fiscal-minded Florentines won a war against Venice and Naples by calling in so many loans that the rival cities were thrown into a financial panic. In spiritual things as well, Durant does a truer set on his subject than many a more academic historian. He catches gracefully "the integral spirit" of the age in aptly chosen quotations and lets the earthy irreverence of the era bubble...