Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch hunters, who now define a Communist as anyone who is friendly with anyone who is a Communist--who is in turn defined as a Communist because . . . and thus these Congressmen who often despise modern cultural movements begin to rival Gertrude Stein...
...taken as settled that the U.S. will go to war in an effort to stop any nation from dominating the world. In fact, twice in this century the U.S. has gone to war when it looked as if rival nations had become threats...
...UNSCOP plowed prosily through tons of documents submitted by rival Jewish organizations. (The Arabs boycotted the committee.) Meanwhile, members of the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi attempted to kidnap a Palestine Government liaison officer attached to UNSCOP, but failed. The underground Stern Gang, rejecting a proposed truce during the inquiry, killed four British soldiers, wounded seven others...
...York Yankees were so hot that, with the season half over, they were now favorites to win their first American League pennant in four years. On the Fourth of July, they were a very comfortable 7½ games ahead of their nearest rival. It was the kind of lead that the Yankees used to enjoy in the days of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, but the 1947 Yankees got there by different methods. They no longer specialized in slaughtering the opposition with the home run and the big inning (the National Leaguers were doing that now). Instead, the Yankees relied...