Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pegged as a comer, Ike was yanked away to serve as chief of staff to General Walter Krueger's Third Army in the big Louisiana Maneuvers in the fall of 1941. There he handled the movements of 270,000 men so brilliantly that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made...
...professional friends. Some have helped her on her way. But from the first the lonely, fat girl from Manhattan saw herself pitted single-handed against a world of enemies. In her triumph, she takes fierce pride in her defiant self-reliance. At La Scala supporters of a rival diva hiss her regularly. It only arouses Callas to cold fury...
...have been advertising color sets for $500 or less since early last summer. G.E. will bring out its first under-$500 color set this month. NBC is scheduling at least one color show a night, plans to telecast 120 hours of color during the last three months of 1956; rival CBS is telecasting another five hours of color weekly. Yet even in Chicago, where 38.3 hours of color a week sparkle out from the first U.S. "all-color" station (WNBQ), not more than 5,000 sets are in operation. The prevailing U.S. apathy to tinted TV was echoed last week...
...British feel an emotional attachment to gallant defeats and desperate defenses that no mere victory can rival. Thus the Gallipoli campaign of World War I has always ranked high in British hearts, along with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the siege of Tobruk...
...have become so big and diversified that they can vie on their own terms with city retail districts. Mondawmin, for example, has one of the first auto agencies to be included in a U.S. shopping center. At Seven Corners and Southdale, as in many of the new centers, two rival department stores face each other across the mall. Nearly all the big new shopping centers are planned so that specialty stores can compete, department by department, with the dominant department store in the same center. Between them, Mondawmin, Southdale and Seven Corners have almost as much store space (nearly...