Word: rival
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comrades' trouble in the Russian satellite countries was Yugoslavia Heretic Marshal Tito, who continued to defy Moscow. But it was also a great year for purges inside Russia, where Georgy Malenkov, the Kremlin's rising star, quietly disposed of the last followers of his old rival, the late Andrei Zhdanov...
...pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...
There were charges of graft on government contracts. Busta's hodgepodge Labor Party, loosely held together by adulation for "De Chief," was beginning to come apart. By contrast, the rival socialist P.N.P., led by able, Oxford-educated Barrister Norman Washington Manley, seemed in good working order...