Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Clement introduces his humor with admirable subtlety, he plays his horror with brutal directness. Such scenes as the washing-house fight between Gervaise and her rival (where Miss Schell tears an earring out through Miss Delair's bleeding earlobe) and the bedroom where M. Perier has vomited the results of an all-day drinking spree--photographed in careful detail--are moments the viewer would like to, but cannot, forget...
...skimpy forests. Newfoundland Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood, fearful that further cost increases might endanger the companies' operations, moved in to settle the dispute at Grand Falls. Liberal Smallwood, once a union organizer, rammed a bill through the provincial legislature decertifying the I.W.A., while personally creating the rival N.B.W.W. Most Newfoundlanders, including Smallwood's Conservative opposition in the legislature, agreed that the province's solvency was at stake, sided with the Premier...
...same time, Miss Barbara Perry of Chicago, chairman of the American Youth Festival Organization, a rival of the USFC, attacked "the partisanship of the USFC...
...students. Yet, considering the problems of spiraling costs, demands for higher quality, and somewhat inadequate facilities, the College kitchens do a more than satisfactory job. Despite the general student railery, two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates rated the food "good"--a major achievement for institutional cooking. The kitchens cannot rival Mother--but neither could Mother serve 2 1/4 million meals per year
...Heuss's term extended, but was told the idea was unfeasible. For 4½ hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find a new presidential candidate, who would inevitably be of less stature than Erhard...