Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rival Hunters. When the Americans and British entered Germany, they had special teams ready to pounce on any likely-looking technician, piece of apparatus, scrap of paper. These teams, mostly directed by FIAT (Field Information Agency, Technical), were considerably better organized than the Russian brain-hunters. The U.S. had no immediate need of atomic help, since it was already pointing for Hiroshima, but it wanted to keep German atom workers away from the Reds. The U.S. did want help with rockets and guided missiles...
...Sure we kicked 'em off," snorted Producer John Reddy. His charge: the day before the Crawfords were to be married on Bride & Groom, they celebrated their engagement on a rival (CBS) show called Your Hope Chest, told their whole love story on the air, collected a four-chair dinette set, four pairs of nylons, two 17-jewel wrist watches, a woman's suit, two five-ply tires, a set of luggage, an electric iron, a man's shaving kit, a grill and toaster set, a waffle iron, a case of frozen peas and a case of corn...
...sausage is at stake," meaning: this is it)..The elections (at which Berliners will choose 130 city councillors and 805 district assemblymen) are Germany's first to be supervised jointly by all four occupying powers. This means that, for once, SED will have to compete honestly with its rival parties (the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). Even without joint central control, in Russian zone elections last month SED polled only a bare 52% majority...
...With his usual devastating honesty, Stendhal recorded in his autobiography (The Life of Henri Brulard) that he had loved his mother "with a mad passion"-"as criminal as possible" and indistinguishable from the love he felt for his mistresses in later years. His hatred of his chief rival was so violent that even in middle age he generally referred to his unfortunate father as "the bastard...
...novel behind footlights, Obsession tells of a coldhearted minx who marries a very jealous man while remaining the mistress of a very rich one! She is such a bad liar that the most trusting husband would be wild with suspicion in a week; her own husband has spotted his rival before all the audience has straggled in, and has murdered him long before the end. As the curtain falls, the husband is taken into custody. The wife unconcernedly lights a cigaret...