Word: rival
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Manon Springs. After running second in a mayoral election, Humphrey brought about a lasting merger of the rival Democratic and Minnesota Farm er-Labor parties. He won the mayoralty in his second try at age 34. A Minneapolis newspaper reported at the time: "He seems to be a wonderful and meteoric young man, bouncy and gay, built on springs, with a fierce face and pleasant young grin. He puts firecrackers under everything." After two explosively successful terms as a reform mayor, Humphrey became the first Democrat ever popularly elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota...
Governor Pat Brown, who was flying home from Washington when the disorders began, made the unfortunate admission that he had been warned of impending trouble. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, Brown's rival for the Democratic nomination, both seized the opportunity to fault the Governor for keeping the tip from Los Angeles officials. In fact, Negro leaders have repeatedly warned that Watts would erupt again unless a major effort was mounted to correct its social and economic problems...
...present eminence as one of the Big Three of U.S. agrarian lobbies, with a membership of 750,000-mostly small farmers-in 40 states. Under Patton, the son of a union leader, the N.F.U. has demanded ever higher federal price supports for agricultural products, making it the bitter rival of the conservative American Farm Bureau Federation (TIME cover, Sept. 3) and the middle-of-the-road National Grange...
...Thai said, because he is "honest"--which from the way Thai stressed the word suggested that Ky is an exception. Yet And Thai hedges all his bets by expressing great admiration for the Catholic power behind Ky like Chief of State Thieu as well as Thieu's Buddhist arch-rival Tri Quang...
Although familiar allegiances of class, or age, or sex still tie blocs of voters to one of the two great parties, most observers agree that the electorate in the crucial marginal constituencies will be swayed by their impression of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, or his rival, Edward Heath, Tory party leader...