Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...
...Agata had other ideas. When her father was deported for rubbing out a rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...
...Samples of a captured Nazi drug, which is supposed to rival penicillin, were analyzed by British Army doctors, turned out to be marfanil, a sulfa drug. According to the New York Times, marfanil's "curative properties are second only to penicillin" and it is "no more toxic than sulfanilamide." The British Army has already tried...
...voters that Senator Pepper is a typical, nationally known personification of New Dealism. New Dealer Pepper retorted by snuggling even closer to the President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper had kept himself in the Senate by running up a 5,000 majority over four...
...Soviet Union's best-paid, most honored writers-winner of a Stalin prize, the Red Banner of Labor, and, last week, the Order of Lenin, Russia's top civilian honor. Incredibly prolific, he writes pamphlets, radio broadcasts, recently published a volume of lyric verse. His only rival in popularity is stocky Mikhail Sholokhov, 39, author of And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea (TIME, Aug. 4, 1941). Pravda has been serializing his new epic They Fought for Their Country...