Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents tried to brush him off as a "junior G-man," got sidetracked in feuds of their own. When election day came, Michigan voters swept him into the nomination with a 50,000 lead over his nearest rival. Their 3-to-1 majority over Democrats voting the same day made Kim Sigler a good bet to beat the Democrats' former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to the state house in the fall...
...election day he went to the polls with his grandmother and grandfather, John F. ("Honey") Fitzgerald, onetime Mayor of Boston. Then he sneaked off to a movie, A Night in Casablanca. That night, when returns showed he had beaten his toughest rival in his home territory, grave, earnest, teetotaling Jack Kennedy knew he was in. Rarely has a Republican Congressman been elected from the Eleventh District...
Pitchers are usually the first to blow their tops at Ed Stanky; but the fury often spreads to the catcher, then to the whole team. Hissed one rival player: "First you 'lose' Stanky, then you lose your head. First thing you know, you've lost the ball game...
Rose, who likes to pose as a lovable little gaffer, runs plugs for some of his rival saloonkeepers' shows, admires other space-grabbers ("One of the great showmen of all time is a kindly, pickle-faced fight promoter named Mike Jacobs . . . rates with Barnum, Ziegfeld and Roxy") or endorses the free entertainment of watching Manhattan's public markets and Broadway's fancydancing billboards. He advises customers not to tip his waiters too much, warns "If you are looking for naked tootsies, the Horseshoe is not your cup of tea" (but slyly suggests that the girls are more...
...effort or cause "unrest" among the Filipinos. Some of Quezon's friends have seen political motives in this attitude, noting that while The Good Fight speaks in generally friendly terms of Osmeña, it gives higher praise to Manuel Roxas, Osmeña's victorious rival in the 1946 presidential campaign...