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Word: rivale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrive "way up high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants marijuana in Dallas' coat and has him beaten and then arrested by a Hunsecker-owned police officer. Indeed, Sidney walks in "moral twilight," "a cookie...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Sweet Smell of Success | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

This is the third loss for the 'Cliffe, which now has a 3-3 record in local games. Next week it meets its annual rival, Jackson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Tops 'Cliffe Basketball Team | 3/12/1959 | See Source »

Both sides--government and rebel--claimed victories in rival propaganda broadcasts from stations 200-odd miles apart. There was no independent confirmation of any victory claims. Late tonight the government radio added a new twist--it began to ignore the revolt entirely...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Rebels Threaten Iraqi Government As Propaganda Broadcasts Conflict | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

...appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with the aside, "Detestable girl! But I require tea!") (italics mine...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

...from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper Guild strike, Sam Newhouse made an unusual deal with the rival P-D that should strengthen the pocketbooks of both papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alliance of Necessity | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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