Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salvador. Following a 1948 revolution, Lieut. Colonel Oscar Osorio, the local Strong Man, beat out an army rival for President at the first universal suffrage election ever held in this little republic of coffee and volcanoes...
...sergeant upped himself to colonel and chief of staff, and fired almost the entire army officers' corps. The ousted officers holed up in the National Hotel. Batista sent soldiers to disarm them. Welles, who lived at the hotel, stopped that showdown by seating himself midway between the rival forces in the long lobby and imperturbably discussing Emily Dickinson's poetry with Adviser Adolf Berle until the soldiers withdrew. But 25 days later, fighting broke out at the hotel. After Batista's soldiers had lobbed 200 shells into the building, the officers surrendered. Batista, then only...
...years old; it finally broke free from France (as did Lebanon) in 1946. Democracy hardly had a chance to get started there; land-grabbing rich and ambitious politicians quickly brought chaos to the promising land. Shishekly's first step in December was to jail all rival top politicians and install his right-hand man, Colonel Fawzi Selo, in all their places. Two months later he issued the first of a blizzardlike series of nearly 200 government decrees which turned Syria virtually inside...
After the confession was complete, the Call graciously admitted a reporter and photographer from Hearst's morning Examiner, but the rest of the San Francisco press had to wait. Said City Editor "Pete" Lee of the rival News (circ. 125,625): "We got thoroughly clobbered...
Touching. In Medford, Ore., red-faced officials of the United States National Bank found their vault's time clock set two days ahead by mistake, sheepishly got a loan from rival First National to conduct the day's business...