Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communist Party, more than 60% of whose 12 million members have come in since the Reds came to power, has grown fat and arrogant in office. The remedy, he announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with the people and heed their complaints. In particular, said a subsequent party directive, all Communist Party members should "perform physical labor regularly, to associate with the masses and eliminate offensive distinctions...
...Unknown Man. On closer examination it was seen that the crafty Nikita had struck out 25 key industrial ministries in favor of control at regional levels, where his party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
...falling apart. Wispy-white-maned Antonio Segni, who looks like a Shakespearean bit-player on short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...
Between the Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world...
...John Mackay was a patient and devoted husband; cushioned by an income of "a million dollars every thirty days," he encouraged Louise in all her extravagances. When he was not engaged in a death struggle with Financier Jay Gould over the Postal Telegraph system he had set up to rival Gould's Western Union, John liked to spend his vacations as an amused observer at his wife's parties...