Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steelman, 47, plump, red-faced ex-conciliator of the Labor Department, who always had one formula for conciliating John L. Lewis: "Give in." After Clifford, his rival in the antechamber, Steelman comes nearest to having the boss's ear. He handles labor and economic problems...
...associate editor of Harper's, Best-selling Novelist Merle Miller (That Winter) waxed indignant at a rival, Bestseller Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms). At a Manhattan forum on publishers' methods, Miller took pained exception to a ripely precious publicity photograph (TIME, Jan. 26) of a pensive, reclining Capote peering up through artfully disarranged bangs. If the idea of printing that particular photograph was Capote's, Miller fumed, it was "deplorable"; if his publisher's, "disgraceful...
...minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Pittsburgh Competition. His "hard coal" greys were being threatened by a "soft coal" outfit from out Pittsburgh way. It was then that Kehoe brought out his ace, a grey-black-&-green veteran of two fights last year. It looked bad for the grey when a rival red rooster drove a spur into a lung. A few minutes later Kehoe's rooster suffered first a broken leg, then a broken wing...
...rival Pitman system, taught more than Gregg in Philadelphia, New York City and Chicago, holds second place in the U.S., first in the British Empire...