Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racer: No. 4, the bright red Ferrari driven by Italy's Alberto Ascari. For 55 of the 80 laps, Driver Ascari hung back, jockeying for position, then made his move and shot into the lead. On the last lap, still ahead by 20 yards, Ascari saw a rival edging closer, tried to fight him off by risking a curve at 120 m.p.h...
...stalled machine. A third slammed into him, and both cars hurtled off the track. The crowd raised a long, audible sigh when the two cars came to a stop and both drivers scrambled from the wreckage unhurt. The rest of the field swept on, and Ascari's arch rival Juan Fangio won in a Maserati...
...just as the police had suspected. Reporter Freeman knew just how to keep her story exclusive; George dictated his confession to the police but held off signing it for a day. When the Chronicle broke its Page One exclusive, the police were deluged with calls from Hearst's rival Examiner and later the Call-Bulletin. There was no confession yet, newsmen were correctly told. For two days the Chronicle played Bernice Freeman's beat, until Boles finally signed the confession...
...press," Judge Silbert found the three Press staffers guilty, fined them a total of $700 and costs. While the Press prepared to appeal, the paper said in a front-page editorial that its defense would be based on "the right of the people to know." But' the rival Cleveland Plain Dealer disagreed. Said the Plain Dealer: "Freedom of the press is in no way involved . . . The principle involved here ... is whether a judge has a right to conduct his court in a manner which appears to him to be seemly or whether newspapers are in charge of the courts...
...want to be united. Caradoc decides to go it alone with his Belgae. The Emperor Claudius himself limps ashore, and in two decisive battles, the short Roman swords cut the Belgae down to serf-size. Fleeing west and hiding out for years, Caradoc is finally betrayed by rival tribesmen, and ends his days under a kind of villa arrest in Rome...