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Word: rival (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thrust & Parry. "Y'all" is not so all-embracing any more. Despite a record 14.3 million membership, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. faces a simmering struggle with its most powerful single member. Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers and Meany's rival for mastery of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., challenged Meany in a resounding resolution accusing the confederation of "complacency, lack of social vision, dynamic thrust and crusading spirit." The attack might have caused a rousing floor fight, but Reuther chose to stay in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Most of the Way with L.B.J. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...Wednesday he had set up a rival government and claimed control of most of the Greek armed forces. A broadcast had said that his troops were advancing on Athens in an attempt to oust the 8-month-old colonels' regime...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Greek King Flees to Rome; Fails to Overcome Junta | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

...elections to be held after a one-year cooling-off period. Though two religious parties managed to form a fairly strong coalition in the Punjab, the Congress Party successfully brought down the coalition by offering to throw its support to a Sikh minister if he would form a rival government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Plague of Unrest | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Prince Erie | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...rival of Terrell's, Jose Gonzalez '68, will play number four. In 1965 and 1966 Gonzalez won the Junior Nationals, edging out Terrell both times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Balls May Roll In Championship Ways | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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