Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign, so far, that they are anywhere near important enough to destroy Nixon's commanding lead, but they are giving Hubert Humphrey his first real opportunity to try to build a cumulative attack on his Republican rival...
...along the country's eastern border. Stalin sent Tito a letter containing a threat that he has not forgotten. "We think Trotsky's political career is sufficiently instructive as a reminder," it read. The allusion, of course, was to the 1940 assassination of Stalin's old rival in Mexico by Soviet agents...
...Elizabeth II. When they appeared in France in Paris-Match, the royal household was scandalized. The Queen asked the British press to refrain from printing the "personal" snapshots, but the London Daily Express took advantage of its reciprocal arrangement with Paris-Match and printed them anyway. With that, the rival London Daily Mirror threatened to publish "a purloined snapshot taken by Prince Philip of Prince Charles sitting on his potty at the age of 19 months...
...nobody's surprise, London's Decca Records concluded that the cover was "in dubious taste," and refused to distribute the album on its release date two months ago, thus holding up sales that probably would have amounted to $1,000,000. Decca may have been thinking of rival EMI's problem in 1966 when its U.S. subsidiary, Capitol Records, had to recall 500,000 copies of a Beatles album because of the cover. It showed the Beatles, in butcher smocks, laden with chunks of raw meat and the decapitated bodies of dolls...
...formal organization of both the administrative offices and the faculties apparently tends to discourage the cohesiveness that comes from shared responsibility in matters of university concern. We were struck by the constant recital of an apposition between the Administration and the faculty as rival bodies with separate interests, for it would seem to us that on educational questions the two should be essentially one. The lack of a University Senate and the division of the professors and other teachers into three or four faculties--quite apart from the professional schools--where other universities have a single Faculty of Arts...