Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Blimpish resistance in the civil service, MacDonald is pushing educational and economic plans (e.g., more village schools and a five-year plan to integrate rubber-rich Malaya's lopsided economy). He has had notable results in bringing together the federation's rival Chinese (1,884,534) and Malay (2,427,834) population, mainly through the Communities Liaison Committee, in which leaders of both peoples talk over common problems of citizenship and economic opportunity...
...could jump into the fountain pool with no beard at all. Barely five years and four months after Knight added the slipping News to his thriving chain,* it had paid off nearly $8,700,000 of its $12,500,000 mortgage, had a commanding lead over Hearst's rival Chicago Herald-American in advertising, and hoped shortly to pass the Hearstpaper in circulation and become Chicago's biggest afternoon paper...
...Richardsons had the final victory. Jim might be rich but he never got accepted socially. Huey Long backed him for Congress but dropped him quick when Jim's political rival exposed his affair with a dashing socialite. When Jim lost his fortune in the Depression, he salvaged what he could and settled down in the old Richardson house to live out a life of hate and Gothic horror with Caroline. Caroline went looking for an anodyne. "Find me a young gentleman roomer," she urged her cousin. "A strong young man. Please, please do that...
...Harvard Chess Club now leads the Boston Metropolitan Chess League, President Alfred David '51 announced last night. The club now has a record of five wins, two draws, and one loss as opposed to their nearest rival, Boylston, with five wins, one draw, and two losses...
Experts wrote essays proving that the bambuco had been the national dance all along. So far as Bogotá was concerned, the rumba, samba and the tango had a new and potent rival...