Word: rivalled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Exile more than they did Mihailovich, supported the rival Partisan guerrillas who were carving out their own fighting front. From high on the crags of southern Serbia, Mihailovich, a great fighter, saw, instead of the unification of his country, a preview of rival aims and clashing ideologies which may bring out a rash of civil wars in post-war Europe...
...deserted Chang Tso-lin to join with Wu Pei-fu, war lord rival of Chang Tso-lin. He rejoined Chang Tso-lin and served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang...
...Flatfoot but fleet-footed Frankie Sinkwich, University of Georgia's galloping, pass-perfect halfback: the Associated Press annual poll for the No. 1 athlete of 1942; surpassing his nearest rival, Red Sox Outfielder Ted Williams, by 94 points to 55. Leading ground gainer this season (2,023 yards), Sinkwich sparked the Georgia Bulldogs to ten victories in eleven games...
William Phillips, whose family has been distinguished in New England since the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, has no State Department rival save Under Secretary Sumner Welles for tall, aristocratic elegance. He was once Assistant Secretary of State, twice Under Secretary, served as Ambassador to Belgium and Italy, has been one of State Secretary Cordell Hull's croquet-playing cronies...
...have Smuts out of the country, even though he covers himself with international acclaim as he did in Britain recently, is what the two rival nationalist groups want above all else. Last week they both wished that he had never been born 72 years ago. What had been dreamed up as a political masterpiece by their respective party chieftains in the sleepy little town of Ventersdorp turned into ridicule and recrimination...