Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stoughton edged into a 6.5 point lead over its nearest rival, Holworthy, in the Yard intramural team trophy race...
Balance of Power. In Hertford, England, running for county alderman, C.E.G.B. Goad cast his ballot for his rival, lost the election by one vote...
Appraisal: As Foreign Secretary, Morrison will probably keep Britain on the course set by his onetime bitter rival and recent friend Ernest Bevin. Morrison, a cagey leader, will do nothing to divide the Labor Party-and this may be his greatest weakness in a time when Britain needs a more vigorous foreign policy. Above all other considerations, he wants Labor to stay in office. Morrison quips: "Maybe I wasn't born to rule, but I've got used...
Irreducible Blocs. After 18 election plans had been cold-shouldered by the committee, Pleven two weeks ago put a last government compromise up for general Assembly debate. The Assembly encouragingly voted for the principle of reform, 327 to 166. Only the Communists dissented. Then the rival parties knocked down twelve plans for implementing...
Next day she learned how doggedly the Lampoon persists in its career of humor. The "Fabian Fall" bronze had disappeared from the sanctum of the Lampoon's ancient rival, Harvard's daily Crimson. It was, in fact, a bust of a former Crimson president who died in office in 1909. At week's end, it was back in the Crimson's sanctum...