Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belligerent chin in a wild political campaign to get himself legitimized as an elected President. His triumph was by no means as certain as he had thought when his regime rashly promised the people they could go to the polls on Feb. 24. His democratic rival Dr. José P. Tamborini had become threateningly strong. There was even a chance that the election might be fair (see LATIN AMERICA...
Between such spasms they ran the Sells-Floto Circus, beat the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather...
When Sikorski died in an airplane crash at Gibraltar, Mikolajczyk, at 42, became Prime Minister of the exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November...
...tycoons held an outwardly amiable reunion last week. The host was big, bluff Kent Cooper, 65, executive director of the Associated Press. His guest, young enough (41) to be his son, was slight, greying, boyish-faced Christopher Chancellor, general manager and rejuvenator of A.P.'s No. 1 world rival, Britain's Reuters...
...Phineas Fogg, Nellie Bly catches none of Nellie's speed or her story's excitement, and too little of the period's color. With its weak and whiskered gags, its dime-a-dozen tunes, and its plot that has a muddled Victor Moore competing for a rival paper, Nellie Bly is just musical globaloney...