Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons traditionally elects its Speaker unanimously, so as to emphasize the non-partisan dignity of his office. But last week, smarting from their party's defeat at the polls, Labor backbenchers put up a rival candidate and forced a party vote. The result was the first Tory victory in the new Parliament: Shakes was elected Speaker...
...Harvard had transferred all home football activities from Jarvis to Soldiers Field. At the same time, the Yale rivalry had become so bitter that the two schools severed football ties for two years. Princeton moved up to be Harvard's foremost rival and won the 1895 battle largely by running a Crimson fumble for a score all the way from its own five yard line...
...March, 1950 Buck said. "We shall not over-schedule. We shall have a schedule commensurate with our material and that of our opponents... We shall look upon Yale as our traditional rival, followed closely by Princeton... We shall not schedule games in terms of possible ticket sales...
...Chancy, Glenn Anders et a/.). Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping to embarrassing conclusions...
When she took a fever and died, it became plain to Bendrix from her diary (which he stole) that a rival had ousted him. All Bendrix would admit was that he had at last found who his rival was-and transferred his hatred from an unknown man to an unknown...