Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer day in his 80th year, ex-President John Adams wrote to his old friend and former rival, Thomas Jefferson. "Who shall write the history of the American Revolution?" Adams asked. "Who will ever be able to write it?" Answered Jefferson: "Nobody; except merely its external facts ... The life and soul of history must for ever be unknown...
...Potemkin has any clear policy about the American Revolution, because their main concern at this time is their troublesome neighbor Turkey. If Potemkin remains in power, he will probably continue his aggressive policy toward the Turks, but if he falls, there would be a kind of interregnum while rival courtiers vie for his powers...
...competing parties were doing their best to make the voters aware of the election's importance. Almost every inch of available wall space last week had been plastered with posters pro claiming the slogans and accomplishments of rival candidates, accompanied by a blitz of campaign ads and appeals. In all, the parties will have spent an estimated $20 million by the time the voters finally decide an election that no one wanted in the first place...
...does not accept advertising, but does depend on ratings to justify the ever-rising license fees (currently $32.75 a year for a color set) that pay most of BBC'S bills. The network claims that 1.5 million more Britons watch its evening news than view that of its rival, the commercial Independent Television Authority. But audience measurement is an unrefined science in Britain, and the ITV'S news had long been considered by critics to be livelier and more imaginative than the starchy BBC, known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy...
While managing-mostly successfully-a period of massive social change, the Christian Democrats also got caught in a political dilemma that is unique in Western democracy. In 30 years they never went into opposition, primarily because their only effective rival, the Communists, always seemed too drastic an alternative to most Italians. Thus Italy, reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "became a political unicycle without a spare tire. Denied the reinvigoration and change that periods in opposition allow, the Christian Democrats literally got stuck in power. As its leaders are fond of complaining, they became 'doomed...