Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French were returning to IndoChina under strange auspices. The Chinese, who dislike European colonization in Asia, were taking over the northern part of the country from the Japs. The British, who used to look upon France as their chief colonial rival, occupied Saigon in the South. The U.S. was helping both British and Chinese occupation forces...
...Instead, Lou Ruppel swung out on his own, started a civic clean-up campaign which blasted Chicago as a "dirty shirt town." The Chief summoned Ruppel, ordered him to tone it down. When Ruppel played up Ernie Pyle's death, he was dressed down for overpublicizing "our rival" (Pyle wrote for Scripps-Howard), even though the rival was dead. And when Ruppel tossed out Hearst's dearly beloved top-of-the-page red headlines, oldtime Hearstling Robert Wiley was rushed to Chicago to "breathe more Hearst into the paper...
Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
...hand and a comparable movement in the west would complete the process. ... In the forefront of immediate purposes stands the question of an Anglo-French alliance. . . . [But] Europe can prosper only as a whole and nothing could be more disquieting and reactionary than partnerships or associations smacking of rival blocs. The momentous alliance between Great Britain and Russia was designed ... to associate east and west in a partnership of peace; and that still stands as the supreme test of European statesmanship. It is the condition precedent of any Anglo-French alliance and of any larger grouping that may follow...
Along the Northwest Passage to the Orient, Northwest will have two advantages over its mid-Pacific rival: 1) most of the flying will be overland, where emergency bases can be built; 2) the route will be shorter. New York will be 9,537 air miles from Manila via Northwest's route, v. 10,588 miles via San Francisco and Honolulu...