Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debate between the supporters of the two rival resolutions had droned on all week. Lebanon's Malik sprang a surprise: he announced that "with good conscience" he would vote for both resolutions. The weight of his speech, however, was on the side of the U.S. resolution. The delegates, he said, could do one of four things...
Under-the-Counter Subsidy. In Toronto, Mrs. Greta Longenotti's former employer, a florist, charged that she stole $3,388 from him, used it to open a rival flower shop...
Also the sheriff doesn't fight, which would be just about unbearable but for a magnificent five-minute elbows-and-fingernails brawl between Frenchie and her rival for his affections...
...this week, with the season half over, Sawchuk's armor-plated defense had kept the scoring count against him to an average of less than two goals per game. With the Red Wings' big line busily pumping the puck home past rival goalies, the National Hockey League race had narrowed down to a backstretch duel between Toronto's front-running Maple Leafs and Detroit's fast-closing Red Wings...
Haydn Society musicologists turned detective to put the score together. Haydn composed the opera in London in 1791 when he was 59, on a commission from the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV). On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point...