Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Section A leader Butler, the man who puts a lilt into his cadence, proved himself the master of a situation the other afternoon. The section had been considerably handicapped by another group in marching from the Yard to Langdell and as the rival columns approached the entrance to Langdell, Mr. Butler's command to Section A was "column left, charge!" Section A's marching, incidentally, improved considerably with the help of Butler's rhythmic chant...
Billings and Baptists. In spite of Cousin Emmy's lack of schooling, she is an astute businesswoman who knows how to demand and get the top billing which her rustic showmanship deserves. Says she: "I know and can prove that I outdraw Pappy Cheshire [a rival hillbilly] or anybody else. So you just go ahead and put me on top of that there pile, where I belong." Murmured one radio engineer while Emmy and her "kinfolks" rattled the control-room windows: "She sure knows how to keep that program hopped up." A teetotaling, nonsmoking, unprofane Baptist, who forsakes parties...
...British had enough troops in the Middle East under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to hold the lid down; they have been in actual military control of Syria and Lebanon since 1941. They were not averse to a fading of rival French prestige and power in the Arab sphere. But successful revolt in Lebanon might give ideas to the Arabs of British-mandated Transjordan and Palestine, British-allied Iraq and Egypt...
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, had heard enough. For a year the rival claims of General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks and Drug (Comrade) Tito's Partisans had blurred the picture of resistance in Yugoslavia. For a year the Yugoslav Government in Exile had sought to bury the fact that its War Minister, Serb Mihailovich, was doing little or nothing, that all or most of the pressure on the Nazis was coming from Tito's guerrillas, who call themselves the Army of Liberation (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942). Each band has accused...
David Lichine, Rostov-born, Paris-trained alumnus of Ida Rubinstein's troupe and one of the few choreographers who is equally famed as a dancer of male leads. A rival of Massine, Lichine resembles him in his love for flamboyant spectacle (Fair at Sorochinsk, Francesca da Rimini) and sophisticated satire (Helen of Troy, Graduation Ball...