Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike was a landmark in the unfolding history of the New York union's parent, the 75,000-member American Federation of Teachers. In cities across the country where teacher morale is low, the A.F.T. is outstripping its bigger "professional" rival, the 765,600-member National Education Association, which shuns strikes and collective bargaining. Last week's strike may well stiffen U.S. school boards against the union. But it did produce phalanxes of traditionally timid teachers mad enough to hit the bricks like miners and dockers...
...that what was nearest their hearts was nearest his. He has succeeded brilliantly but his success will not out-live him. He has already lost favor with the business community, which took a heavy loss in the three years after "Little Rock." There will be no Faubus "dynasty," to rival the Talmadges and the Longs...
...agreed that severe economic troubles have greatly weakened Mao's regime, most were skeptical that any commando raids by Chiang would touch off a general revolt. The U.S. also could not believe that Khrushchev would sit back and watch the Chinese Communists fall, whatever his disagreements with his rival in Peking. Still, the question of support for the Nationalists was not easily dismissed...
...population of 7,500,000 is too small to support mass production of cars. Its low tariffs make it an alluring market for foreign automakers. Its wages-Europe's highest-prevent Swedish producers from underselling foreign cars at home, let alone abroad. But Volvo and Saab, two rival Swedish cars, are both speeding ahead...
...Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. A family biography of the most fabulous banking dynasty of Europe, and the story of how its members rose from the ghetto to rival royalty...