Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the Country. In the complicated game of rival intrigues and rival ambitions in the Communist world, it may be some time before anyone knows for sure whether Tito offered up Nagy to the Russians as his way of playing the game, and was mad not so much at Nagy's arrest as at the tactless way the Russians grabbed Nagy before he was even out of Yugoslav hands. Nor could it be known whether Nagy was in fact in Rumania or, like thousands of other Hungarians, on his way to Siberia. But the Russians may yet have need...
Tory backbenchers-both the moderates and the Suez militants-were not satisfied with the government's equivocating position. That night a committee comprising all Tory backbenchers confronted Butler and Macmillan. Under the assault, the two rival leaders stood shoulder to shoulder. Butler spoke first: Britain would work with the U.N.. but it would not withdraw from Port Said until it was satisfied. Then Macmillan rose, gave an impassioned speech. He ran over the tragedies that would ensue if the Tory Party split and the government fell. The U.N. would collapse, he declared; Britain would be isolated from...
...shippers in its own area, the union reduced its demand to a contract covering all Port of New York shippers who also operate in other ports. One reason why the I.L.A. will fight hard for a coastwide deal: such a contract will make it more difficult for the rival, reform-minded A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Longshoremen-with its principal strength in New York-to establish locals elsewhere...
Iraq (pop. 5,200,000) is the only Arab member of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Egypt's chief rival for Arab leadership, Iraq was until recently counted a British preserve. Tough old Nuri es-Said, Iraq's strongman, is Britain's best Arab friend in the area, but under pressure of nationalists 1) announced publicly, after the Suez invasion, that Iraq will boycott all Baghdad Pact meetings attended by Britain, 2) told the U.S. privately that if he is to survive he must disengage from the British. Rich oil reserves, well spent on long-range development...
Four years ago, this writer saw a very proud and confident quarterback named Dean Loucks lead an undefeated White Plains High School eleven to a 46-3 defeat of its traditional rival, New Rochelle, which was having its worst season in some six years...