Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jupiter's interservice rival, the Air Force's Thor. was successfully fired for the third time-this time over a record-breaking 2,500-mile range (but without the target-seeking accuracy of Jupiter, the Army groused in a fresh outburst of characteristic Pentagon hostility...
...hand" to interfere with them, "we will cut it off." Staying on as Soviet commander in the Far East, he presumably masterminded the Korean invasion of 1950, moved back to Moscow last year. For Khrushchev he will be a faithful servant rather than rival...
...your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government. In an abject turnabout, President Kuwatly hastily...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 30--Rival plans for settling the Syrian-Turkish border crisis were submitted to the U.N. General Assembly today. They reflected a split in the 82-nation body and it appears doubtful if either would get the required two-thirds approval...
...corporations are not so benevolent. The Timex Watch Company last week dropped its sponsorship of Bob Hope's program because the comedian appeared on a show in which a Bulova commercial came on before, not after, the station break. This supposedly associated Hope's name with that of a rival company. In such an atmosphere, programming--in fact a personality--becomes merely an effective way of selling, thus precluding any originality or inventiveness which might endanger this ability...