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Word: rivale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government put up pistol-packing Father Dweihi as a candidate only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Mountain Feud | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...aide-de-camp. Another temptress (Joan Collins), led for a while to believe she has Negro blood, drags the governor's son into sudden paternity. Her half brother (James Mason), who really does have Negro blood, imagines that he is also a cuckold, and so murders his supposed rival in a fit of pique. The movie's single solid acting job is by John Williams as a shrewd constabulary chief. The movie gets no distance at all in solving Santa Marta's color problem, but the color photography is beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Sharp-eyed Neal Kromer. manager of the Bogert Builders of the rival Knee-High League, had been impressed by the two youngsters' strong throwing arms and their better-than-.400 batting averages. He offered them free taxi rides to and from every game, flashy jackets and future trips to New York if only they would jump from the Jets and sign with the Builders. Flattered as any bonus baby, the kids agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baby Bonus Babies | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...Biff! Bang! Wallop!" In search of a hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Man Who Knew All | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...James Grant, while the best Yale's Roger Miller has done is 22 feet, 11 inches. The other Crimson freshman, Pat Liles, will be the other broad jumper. In the pole vault, Yale provided Jim Beckman, whose 13 feet, 6 inches, is seven inches better than his nearest English rival...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Harvard-Yale Squad Will Meet Oxford-Cambridge Track Team | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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