Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanley led the Crimson representatives at the Eastern Intercollegiate swimming championships by setting a new Harvard and meet record in the 200 yard breast stroke at New Haven. Stanley swam a sensational 2:24.9 to down his long-time Yale rival Joe Koletsky...
Lyman is one of the top players at the Boylston Chess Club in Boston and has played for the Club in its matches with rival chess clubs throughout the country...
...result, especially when unanswered by the more lethargic publicity offices of rival institutions, is uninformation approaching misinformation on the part of sportswriters. They in turn take out their errors on the losing athletes. Such was the case with the Harvard-Yale swimming meet last Saturday at New Haven...
With the success of British arms, and quarreling within their own ranks, the Mau Mau are now on the run. Kimathi and a rival leader split up and went their separate ways. For the past six months the activities of both factions have been confined to a few raids on local cowherds. A refugee captured by Kenya police as he left Kimathi's camp recently has provided a vivid picture of the once great chieftain in his twilight hour. Broken in health and mind, 35-year-old Dedan Kimathi now spends his days making wild speeches to the jungle...
...attempts to overthrow the regime in power--usually Pibul's--were made. Civilian opposition to Pibul's military clique finally collapsed in 1948 after its leader, the strongest of the Marshal's opponents, Pridi Panamyong, was forced into exile in Red China. A series of conflicts with would-be rivals in the army and navy ended in June, 1951, when Pibul's army joined forces with the police of his ex-rival, General Phao Sriyanandh, to put down a naval revolt. A bloodless coup d'etat the following November was used as an excuse for Pibul to appoint...