Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor...
...during the last Presidency of Arturo Alessandri, known as "The Lion," Topaze printed a cartoon showing a decrepit, mangy old lion being tamed by Alessandri's most despised political rival. Said Délano: "Who ever heard of referring to a President as a lion?" Alessandri, like Montero, became a laughingstock...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...
...first, Dodger fans could not see the new wood for the trees sold down the river. Idolized Camilli, sacked, quit baseball for good. Onetime great hitter Medwick, sold at the waiver price, was blasting base knocks for the rival New York Giants. Heady from two champagne years, Brooklynites were tasting punctured seltzer water. Brooklyn's erstwhile rabid rooters felt that it was Rickey who had left the cap off. They needed more than two hands to catalog his infamies and betrayals. Bleachers were full of "Down with Rickey" signs...
...further Christine's career he steals the master key of the opera house, puts a Mickey Finn into Christine's rival's drink, sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...