Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rival Schools. In their campaigns, both Wyatt and Morton have mined about as many votes as they can from Kentucky's most populous areas, particularly Louisville. Now they are hitting the hills and the back trails in last, desperate efforts to win the supporters who might make the difference in a dead-even race. Both do pretty well, even though both are Louisville city slickers...
...defeat. Fortnight ago, after Pflugerville polished off Burton, 45-6, a big-city sportswriter stormed into the Panther dressing room. "What the hell makes you boys win like you do?" he demanded. The Panthers silently mulled that one over. "Milk and eggs?" one player finally ventured. Corrected a rival coach: "I'd say it was more likely raw meat and gunpowder...
...battles are with burgeoning graduate schools that threaten to bury the undergraduate college, with rival universities that want his best teachers and with a curriculum that can always be improved...
Raising Standards. After considering rival bills for months, leaders in both houses of Congress heard the wail of public anguish and feared that it would turn into a roar of indignation. They quickly got together and hammered out the reasonable compromise that Kennedy signed. Pleased spectators at the signing were the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner George P. Larrick and Dr. Frances O. Kelsey. who kept thalidomide off the U.S. market...
...educated King Freddie did an about-face and combined forces with Apollo Milton Obote, who had risen from Nilotic herd boy to the leadership of the Uganda People's Congress. The coalition of King and commoner swept the national elections, capturing 58 Assembly seats to 24 for the rival Democratic Party of Benedicto Kiwanuka. Obote was named Prime Minister...