Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before election, candidates perform every function that might conceivablyably by expected of them after election as editors. Working under careful and continual guidance, they attain the proficiency necessary to produce what one rival has called "the best college newspaper in the United States...
...million people. In 1957 he proposed that Indonesia be purged of its innumerable troubles through "guided democracy," a procedure that he expounded repeatedly without ever quite explaining. Last week, unable to have his way, Sukarno was abandoning guided democracy for a new concept which, instead of "burying" the rival political parties, would only be intended to "simplify" them...
...Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., competing against some of Europe's leading women skiers, scored an eighth in the slalom, then barreled down the 1.6-mile slope through a thick fog to win the downhill race in 2 min. 6.34 sec. -two full seconds faster than her nearest rival, and enough to give her first place in the overall combined scoring...
Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...home from a Florida holiday pulled into the 63rd Street station. There, to avoid reporters he knew would be waiting for him at the downtown terminal. Field got out alone. He had a secret too-the same as Walters'. Next day Field called Chesser Campbell, publisher of the rival-and dominant-morning Chicago Tribune. "I wanted you to be the first to know," he said, with the air of a man who has just slipped the competition a fast one. "We've bought the Daily News...