Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are some ominously familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
...cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...peasants. Phibun ordered officials to kiss their wives when they left for their Government offices. Violators of Phibun's decrees were whisked off to "self-improvement centers." When the Japanese took over Siam, Phibun collaborated with them and declared war on the U.S. and Britain. But Chief Political Rival Pridi Banomyong (under the code name "Ruth") helped to organize a Free Siamese underground to help the Allies. In August 1944, Phibun resigned and retired to his country house. After the war, Pridi Banomyong seesawed...
...over Columbia and in the first half of the Dartmouth game. Discounting the mud-splattered Brown fiasco, however, it has been found wanting in two instances against Wisconsin and Princeton. The answer both times seemed to be the all-round edge of the rival front ranks...
...spite of Harvard's constant and ignominious defeats from its great rival, Yale, the annual game was still the most looked-for one in the country. There was undoubtedly good sportsmanship, but games frequently became rough and new. A minor legend of the early Eighties were Ben Lamb's teeth and their effect on the Harvard anatomy during a typically fierce game. The CRIMSON even penned a little poem on them...