Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the confusion in Burma was caused by rival Marxists. Hari Goshal, carrying out the Calcutta plan, was busily at work with the so-called White Flag Communists. A group called Red Flag Communists worked separately from them. Closest to the government in outlook, but believing in cooperation with the Communists, was a group of veterans of the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized by former Premier U Aung San, assassinated last year. Another important group is the Karens, who are mostly Christian, and oppose the government, which they say is heavily Marxist...
Unlike his perennial Red Sox rival...
Kobak's decision was greeted with moderate applause in the trade. There was also some likelihood that his troubled heart and conscience may have been reinforced by the fact that Three for the Money-unlike giveaway shows on rival networks (e.g., Stop the Music, Truth or Consequences)-never attracted a sponsor...
...Dewey kept determinedly to the routine he had followed ever since his nomination. He boned up on his facts, pored over a specially prepared chronology of Democratic foreign policy. He soaked up new ideas from a constant stream of visitors-from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press...
...young men, fresh out of college, strangle a young friend-just for the thrill -and hide the body in a chest.To sharpen their excitement and selfesteem, they serve a buffet supper, off the murder chest, to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), sweetheart (Joan Chandler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas Dick) and a beloved former teacher (James Stewart...