Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KAGANOVICH: An old hand, perhaps the most self-effacing of the lot, and therefore apt to be underrated on the outside, but regarded as a steadying influence among rival factions...
...full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time was a lackadaisical...
...issue was a section of the TVA appropriation that would have 1) cut off the main electrical-transmission artery of the privately owned $107 million Dixon-Yates power plant at West Memphis, Ark., and 2) extended the power of the Government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority by building a rival, $100 million power plant near South Fulton, Tenn...
...about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...
...give the rest of the world $1,300 billion for peace. He called it "Proposal for a Total Peace Offensive to Stop Communist Aggression by Taking the Initiative in the World Contest for Men's Minds, Hearts and Loyalties." President Roosevelt called him "our engineer." Reuther's rival, R. J. Thomas, present on one such occasion, quickly corrected F.D.R.: "No, Mr. President, he's only a tool-and-die maker...