Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protection for all slot-machine and punchboard operations through the whole state. In Missouri, the state government "narrowly escaped falling under the control of gangsters" in 1948, the committee declared. Former State Attorney General Roy McKittrick testified that the late Charlie Binaggio offered him $50,000 to withdraw his rival candidacy to now-Governor Forrest Smith, told him: "I have to have a governor." After election, Binaggio was seen so often leaving Governor Smith's office that reporters dubbed him "BackDoor Charlie." But Binaggio failed to get a wide-open state from Smith; for his unforgivable failure, he died...
...model had even left the hangar, Boeing Airplane Co. was ordered to tool up for full-scale production of its huge, swept-wing B-52 jet bomber, a bigger, faster version of the B-47. Intended as a replacement for the giant, cigar-shaped B-36 (and as a rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load as the B-36, and a lot more speed. If all goes well, the B-52 will make its maiden flight next fall, start...
...Business Like Show Business. From Nenni's remarks and other speeches, some Western observers got the idea that the Kremlin was getting ready to pull out of U.N., set up the World Peace Council as its rival. Ehrenburg, indeed, said-"The World Peace Council is the only organization which embraces true representatives of the people of the world...
...fellow pilots from the Air Transport Command started the shoestring line in 1946 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Moreover, they had hauled almost twice as much freight as the year before-45,318,000 ton-miles, 26% of all U.S. air cargo and far more than Slick's closest rival, huge American Airlines (36,606,771 ton-miles...
...sideshow. Slight deviations from this standard may seem harmless, but there is no difference in intention between them and the outright purchase of football players. Even "traditional rivalries" are more expendable than education, and should not become the criteria of a football policy. If a traditional rival prefers the rarified air of the Top Ten to strict compliance with the rules, then it is useless for Harvard to attempt to keep up with...