Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities and the investigation was steered into a bipartisan blind alley). As a border-stater, Gore is acceptable to both North and South. One of Harriman's top advisers, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, speaks especially highly of Gore. So does Rival Jack Kennedy...
...clearly high time for responsible service chiefs to stop wrangling like rival labor leaders, high time for the Commander in Chief to put a stop to such reckless playing with the nation's welfare...
...ancient Olympic times. In his home town of Kingsburg, Calif, last year, he ran up an astonishing total of 7,985 points, 98 more than Bob Mathias' winning Olympic performance in 1952, a fat 338 more than the best ever scored by his fast-improving prospective chief rival at Melbourne this fall, Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov...
...sharp a competitor to underrate his own talents or misjudge a rival, Johnson began pointing for the 1956 contest back in 1952, when as a 16-year-old high-school sophomore he went to Tulare, Calif., to see Bob Mathias earn a trip to his second Olympics. The complicated scoring was beyond young Rafe (as it is beyond almost everyone else but the judges), but he was not too modest to decide that he was as good as or better than most of the entrants...
...Gainsborough and Turner. Goya's studio had ten Rembrandt prints, to which Goya freely admitted his debt: "I have had three masters: Velasquez, Rembrandt, and nature." As the pendulum swung from classicism to romanticism in the 19th century, Delacroix seized on Rembrandt to best his classicist rival, Ingres, and wrote: "Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael...