Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheel or to Charge. The job of rousing an indifferent electorate fell overwhelmingly to Leader Gaitskell. Old Rival Nye Bevan ostentatiously stepped back, indicating by an open reference to his age ("I am 60") that he would rather be a potential Foreign Secretary than a rebel who would never be Prime Minister. That left the left-wingers without a head but still capable of making a lot of noise. With the help of the stolid old trade-union wheel-horses who are the strength of the party, Gaitskell skillfully headed off the more headlong Socialist chargers. Hell-bent for equality...
...this has a powerful effect even on the owners of healthy dogs: they tend to associate their pets' physical conditions with their own. Fat and underexercised themselves, they feel what Manhattan's McCann-Erickson ad agency calls "a gnawing nutritional anxiety" about their dogs. When Rival accepted this theory, it cut down fat content and upped protein, last year racked up the biggest sales increase (total sales: $12 million) in the business...
...leave? Not, as has been represented, because I think Harvard is different--for better or worse, not bcause Harvard can't afford it (though NSA would take at minimum one-fourth of what we received at registration), and not because the Student Council wants to set up a rival organization...
...task: to rent at the depths of the Depression no less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space. He did it by luring potential tenants with more attractive rents and facilities, sped their entry into Rockefeller Center by buying up their long-term leases in other buildings. Rival landlords fumed, one filed a $10 million damage suit. But tempers cooled and the suit was dropped when Rockefeller Center set up a subleasing office, found tenants for the space from which it had drawn its own clientele...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--Ted Williams wrapped up his sixth American League batting championship with a closing day flurry--a double and homer in four trips--while his Boston teammate and rival Pete Runnels went hitless in four chances...