Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piled up with each mail delivery. New Eisenhower-for-President clubs were putting out their banners all over the country, hastily ordering batches of posters and campaign buttons. Hard-working Ikemen in Washington and Topeka spent hours on the phone straightening out enthusiastic amateurs who happened to have opened rival Ike clubs in the same town. In Los Angeles, the day after Ike's announcement last week, the switchboard of the county registrar's office was temporarily swamped with calls from prospective voters, asking how & when they could register...
...rocking the field house during every opponent's foul shot. Harvard fans have little to gloat about. They run a close second in this department. Their actual cheering, as at Hanover, is commendable, but this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game. The referee had to warn the locals that unless the Bronx cheers stopped Columbia would win by forfeit. It's a good thing the Dartmouth boys only show up for football games...
...excitement, we try to convey a message that subtly teaches patriotism, tolerance, fairness and respect for the rights of all men." On the air, the sponsored (by General Mills) Lone Ranger is so strait-laced that he "avoids commercialism during the entertainment feature." Off the air, like his great rival, Hopalong Cassidy, he relaxes to the extent of endorsing some 70 commercial products, from wallpaper and hats to schoolbags and harmonicas...
Members of Harry Truman's staff have been inclined to sneer at Kefauver as an upstart who let TV spotlights, headlines and fan letters go to his head. Harry Truman himself has been cool toward his potential rival. Recently, however, as the Washington scandals began to hurt, a presidential staff member expressed a new attitude toward Kefauver: "Well, now, maybe Vice President...
...when Cowles, a onetime Chicago Tribune police reporter and son of the Trib's treasurer, at 24 became business manager of the wobbly 16-month-old Spokesman. He won readers with his good local coverage. In the depression of '93, the Spokesman merged with the rival Review, and later Cowles bought out his partners. In 1897, he took over another competitor, the evening Chronicle...