Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malta, where they had to wait for another plane, the rival leaders spoke for the first time. Their conversation, in toto...
After every game each man on the team, including those who warmed the bench, is expected to write a report about the opposing players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three...
Zhdanov's Finnish disgrace was a delight to his rival Molotov. One anecdote of the period tells how Zhdanov was talking to Stalin in the latter's office in the Kremlin. The phone rang. It was Molotov. Stalin talked to him for some five minutes, but Stalin's part of the conversation consisted in saying "yes, yes, yes" while Zhdanov sweated visibly. Finally, just before he hung up, Stalin said "no, no." Stalin glanced up at Zhdanov, who was looking relieved, and said: "Don't be too happy. He just asked me whether I was having...
...Gang. On the official Politburo list (more important than gorodki scores) Zhdanov now stands fourth-after Stalin, Molotov and the hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick...
...Mateo's picturesque Bay Meadows, a sorrel-haired and taciturn young (35) rival, Willie Molter, had already won 114. Four of Willie's horses galloped home out front last week. Many a West Coast horse fan, convinced that betting on Willie is as good a way as any to win, bet on everything he sent to the post. They did it without Willie's blessing; like Jacobs, Willie seldom bets on a horse race, and never more than $10. (A typical paddock conversation goes like this: Owner: "Well, Willie, how do you like my horse today?" Willie...