Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lesson Repeated. The French blamed the massacre on the feuding between the rival FLN and MNA, and claimed that the killings demonstrated what "general terror" would result if they withdrew. In angry reprisal, the French flung out a dragnet of troops, killed 169 rebels in 48 hours. But the FLN had made its bloody point: after Kasba Mechta, any village in Algeria will think twice before welcoming French patrols or refusing to contribute support and money to the FLN rebels. To make the lesson doubly plain, the FLN deliberately repeated the lesson with the men of two tiny communities near...
...economic counselor to the government, with the personal rank of Prime Minister. But Sam Sary, even with his special rank, still approached the real Prime Minister, Sihanouk, only on his hands and knees. Sam Sary instituted a new economic policy of liberalized imports, but they, too, came under fire. Rival ministers whispered in Sihanouk's ear that Sam Sary was being paid off by Chinese merchants, accused him of accepting diamond-studded platinum wristwatches and other bribes...
While-as the Express claimed-20,000 readers scurried to tell the editors just what the Prince could have told the bashful maid, the rival Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,696) rode TO THE RESCUE one day before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince...
...club's president emeritus, well-heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive...
Bird Dogs & Bargains. Bibb Falk's teams have been winning, and Falk has been bellyaching ever since he took over Texas baseball in 1940. Rival coaches have long since ceased to listen to his plaints. But Bibb spoke for them all last week when he attacked the raiders-the fast-talking big-league "bird dogs" who scout college campuses for the least sign of talent, who use the lure of a pro contract to bargain for an athlete's amateur standing...