Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever McCarthy's feelings may have been about Robert Kennedy as a rival, he was willing to give up nine months of effort for Ted last week. Sounded out by Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, at the height of the Teddy boomlet, McCarthy offered to throw all his weight to the last surviving brother. "Smith said Teddy wouldn't go for it if he had to fight with me," McCarthy recounted. "I told him he wouldn't have to fight with me. I told him I was willing to give all the strength...
...week, borrowing a tradition from the Eskimos, Alaskan Democrats delivered the coup de grāce to Gruening's long and vigorous political life. In the state's primary, they gave 53% of the vote and the Democratic senatorial candidacy this fall to a 38-year-old rival named Mike Gravel...
...goes, Russia's ruling troika-Kosygin, Brezhnev and Pod gorny-were called back from their Black Sea vacations by the party's new upper hand and presented with the decision to invade as a fait accompli. Aleksandr Shelepin, former chief of secret police and a longtime Brezhnev rival, is rumored to have put together the new alliance, which would probably include army leaders and militant young technocrats...
...things can get out of hand when customers develop what Manager Inoue calls "a more than routine attachment to some of our boys." One lady arrived to find her favorite host with another client. She promptly belted down half a bottle of whiskey, demanded a duel with her rival-and found herself quickly shown the door. Another, similarly offended, poured herself a large sake and made local history by shredding her kimono on the spot...
...Best." But professionally, he is an angry man. He makes it his business to doubt the probity of anyone in public life until he has checked him out. He has often been irresponsible, a journalistic guerrilla. Still, on balance, Pearson has dug out more ugly facts than any rival muckraker. In The Case Against Congress, written in collaboration with his associate Jack Anderson, Pearson compiles a forceful indictment of venality in Congress after 35 years of watching it in action and writing about it in his daily column...