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Word: rivale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...WMGM, which (scorning the cornier corn) stresses news and public services and pays for such square taste by lagging at fifth place in the ratings. One morning last week, in the heat of the competition, WMGM fell for an embarrassing hoax that gave WINS a chance to josh its rival all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viva la WINS! | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...shut up about the Indians. He sulked. "Somebody got to somebody," he said during his TV variety show, "and I can't mention the Navajos . . ." Click! and he was off the air, replaced by a traffic safety film. He fought back on his morning radio show over rival KSFO, playing Indian music and calling KSFO "Radio Free San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The San Francisco Massacre | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...swelled and the choral voices droned: "He started the first gossip column in town; Don Ameche invented the telephone for Walter so he could send out the news; he reported the way Jolson made people laugh and cry; and he helped J. Edgar Hoover with the FBI." From ringside, Rival Columnist Leonard Lyons whispered hoarsely: "And on the seventh day, he rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Can WW Save Vaudeville? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Ironically, the A.P. beat the U.P.I, on its own birthday story. Picking up the news from the Dow Jones wire, the A.P. moved the story a full 19 hours 7 minutes before its new rival owned up to its existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New York, May 24 (UPI) | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...

Author: By Rusty Timer, | Title: Coolidge Wins Senior Single Sculls Championship, Equaling Record | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

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