Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria in persuading Stalin to liquidate the "Leningrad clique" and replace it with a Malenkov clique...
...stroke Party Secretary Khrushchev sent into certain oblivion the three next-most-powerful policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy...
Geological Whodunit. Behind all the excitement, which has sent Canadian oil stocks gushing up as much as 70% in recent months, is a geological thriller to rival any detective story. Back in 1921 Imperial Oil Ltd., Jersey Standard's Canadian subsidiary, tried to tap Great Slave's potential with a test well at Windy Point on the western tip of the huge lake far up in Canada's frozen Northwest Territories. The area was littered with natural oil seeps oozing from a rock strata identified as Devonian limestone. But as so often happens when oil-bearing strata...
...established (1947) the $160 million Cullen Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, gave $25 million in all to the University of Houston, along with 7,000 acres of oil lands, made it almost singlehandedly the nation's fastest-growing. Once, witnessing Houston's football team slice up rival Baylor University, 37-7, he exuberantly wrote out a $2,250,000 check, charitably consoled Baylor with $1,000,000 a week later. Politically conservative, he hated "creeping socialism," admired extravagantly the late Joe McCarthy. Full of crotchets, he once told his children: "Use your money to make others look...
...small, experimental aircraft, and Bell has not told how much weight of airframe, payload and fuel its thrust-diverters can lift. Neither has Ryan given figures for its X-13. The chances are that each of the rival VTOLS has advantages. The X-13 needs launching equipment, while the X-14 does not. On the other hand, the X-13 is pushed into the air by the undiminished thrust of its jet engine. The thrust-diverter of the X-14 probably wastes thrust, reducing the weight that the X-14 can carry...