Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading suffragette in her younger days, Oveta got an off-session job as secretary to the new Texas League of Women Voters (inevitably, she became president of the League in later years). In 1930 Oveta decided to run for the Texas House of Representatives, was roundly defeated by a rival who campaigned against her by thundering that Oveta was a "parliamentarian and a Unitarian." It was Oveta's only try for elective office, the only major defeat of her career...
...demonstration just about eliminated rival CBS as a competitor, even though the FCC approved CBS's whirling disk system 2% years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950 et seq.) before a Government order shelved production of color sets. CBS President Frank Stanton has already indicated that to go ahead with CBS's incompatible system would be "tilting at windmills...
...bird had been foisted on the Russians as the American version of Picas so's peace dove by the Lampoon's rival campus publication, the daily CRIMSON. Gentle spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humor to Tsarapkin at his Park Ave. headquarters...
...reason not to want a further airing of murder in the Kremlin. Malenkov, whose reputation suffers from the widespread belief that it was he who arranged Zhdanov's death (for he had most to gain), may also feel the need to clear his name by proving that his rival's death was due to natural causes...
...postscript, setting April 13 as the dismissal date. "I was expecting to be fired only about June," Perle told weeping staffers. "It was a great shock, being so sudden. [But] I suppose there was nothing else to do." For the future, Perle had news for her Washington social rival, Gwen Cafritz. She was building a new house in Washington, would plunge back into the party-giving swim next fall. "For the time being," said Perle Mesta, who is past 65, "this is the end of my diplomatic career...