Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both the French and Germans contend that their schemes eliminate color distortions, which they claim may turn actors roast-beef red or grass overly emerald green when the U.S. system is used-over long-distance lines. U.S. technicians insist that such problems have long since been overcome, that the rival plans are too costly and that the French system has many other bugs...
...barrier to East-West concord is a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the meaning of peaceful coexistence. Poland's Schaff, the most articulate of the five Communists who spoke at the convocation, described the term grandly as a "noble competition for the minds and brains of the people" between rival ideologies. Both Kennan and Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak answered that it is hard for the West to consider the competition "noble" so long as the Reds deny personal liberty and depend on rule by coercion...
...fated Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan in hopes of becoming the first woman to solo around the world, despite frozen landing gear, leaky gas tanks, engine trouble and poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif., six weeks after she walked away unscathed from the crash of her own Piper Apache...
That sounds innocent enough, but the order's vague verbiage has already set off a battle between rival schools of textual interpretation. "Keep the Institute away from Harvard," one party begs. "There is already enough academic comment on policy--let this be a place where real politicians can come to talk over their problems and get people excited about them...
...nation's ninth largest line often gives indifferent service, has been slow to buy new planes, has resisted innovations. Braniff, for example, is a leader in the fight against in-flight entertainment. Last week the line decided to change its course. Invading the Los Angeles executive suite of rival Continental Airlines, it picked a new boss who has won a reputation as one of the industry's brightest young men. Braniff's new president: Harding Luther Lawrence, 44, Continental's executive vice president, who will succeed retiring President Charles E. Beard...