Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macmillan's overt aim was to free Butler to act as his personal deputy, and take charge of the group of ministers assigned to handle Britain's crucial negotiations with the European Common Market. Shrewd, tart-tongued "Rab" Butler, who has long been Macmillan's chief rival for 10 Downing Street, was thus removed from the party's nerve center to an assignment that could make or break the government-but will reflect luster, if Britain enters the Common Market on favorable terms, mainly on Harold Macmillan...
...earned the speakership." When a speakership boomlet puffed up for Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma, Albert assured McCormack that he was not a rival...
Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor Vanderlyn forever. When William Page tried to exhibit his 1862 Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed...
...there are other courses at this pleasant hour, and some of them must even be mentioned. Eugene Rochow's only rival in masterful magic, the one, the only, the incomparable L.K. Nash bursts back from sabbatical in his all-new, slam-bang Chem count them 2. Avoid the first five rows of seats...
...when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another; and the story ends in a convict gang en route to Siberia as the wife pulls a rival down to joint death in a river...