Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opening his campaign for the March 10 New Hampshire primary, Barry Goldwater aimed not at Nelson Rockefeller or any other rival Republican, but squarely at President Johnson...
Scranton however, has never been deposed from a Senate seat by a brash young Congressman named Kennedy, nor has he run for vice-President and lost. His greatest asset is that he has not done very much of anything, and rival partisans, therefore, have precious little to hold against...
...Texas to President Johnson? "I don't concede anybody anything. I'm a Republican who's won in a Democratic state, and mister, Democrats don't know what a dogfight is till they do something like that." Did he consider Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a rival for the G.O.P. nomination? "I consider anybody who has visited with General Eisenhower in the last few weeks a potential candidate...
...south, Khrushchev's Red rival, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, was also talking peace as he interrupted his current tour of Africa to visit his only pals in Europe-the Communists of Premier Enver Hoxha's Albania. In an interview on French television, taped while Chou was in Morocco, he came up with what, for him, was a startling thought: war between East and West is not inevitable. The remark was strictly for capitalist consumption, of course; in Albania, Chou found genuine enthusiasm for his usual militant opposition to the whole idea of Communist coexistence with the West...
Anybody who has read the sonnets knows that Shakespeare is addressing a young man and urging him to marry and preserve his line: "Die single and thine image dies with thee." But who is the boy? When did Shakespeare write to him? And who are the rival poet and the dark lady who later appear in the sequence? These murky questions have perplexed generations of scholars...