Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, he also rejects Alexander Hamilton's combative concept of the U.S. Government as a system of power as the rival of power. Johnson came to the White House with the most extensive congressional experience of any U.S. President, and to him the theory that the branches of the Government should be coordinate, not one subordinate to another, is a living reality. Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy all scrapped bitterly with Congress at different times, but that is one thing that Johnson wants desperately to avoid. "I don't want to come...
...Ayub's claim that he is trying to develop "basic democracy," Miss Jinnah replied: "What sort of democracy is that? One man's democracy? Fifty persons' democracy?" As for Ayub's charge that the country would revert to chaos if he is defeated, his rival snapped: "You can't have stability through compulsion, force and the big stick...
...also proven less efficient on steep grades, noisier at low speeds. Their power must be transmitted to the independently-sprung and swiveling front wheels rather than to fixed rear wheels, requiring a more complex axle that could cost Oldsmobile $150 more per car than the conventional drive. Says a rival Big Three executive: "Front wheel drive is just not worth the added cost in a conventional American...
James Bond, it turns out, was not the most illustrious man to be assigned the number 7 (give or take a couple of zeros) in the records of Her Majesty's Secret Service. His real-life rival, in stature if not in ingenuity, was not only a zealous informant for Great Britain but also, at the very same time, the U.S.'s first Secretary of the Treasury-Alexander Hamilton...
...Harvard-Radcliffe volleyball juggernaut eviscerated seven rival Hub aggregations to cop bisexual not laurels at Northeastern Wednesday...