Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understood why Nikita regarded Bella Italia as male (or the other Common Market partners, for that matter). But natural or not, COMECON was eager to share in the marriage. The meeting's final communique again called for a new, worldwide trade organization to rival the Common Market, but at the same time hoped for increased trade with the West. The message also promised, as Moscow had innumerable times before, that "in the near future" the Communist world will outproduce capitalism both in industry and agriculture...
...desire to return to their prewar status as colonial subjects. In place of original Indo-China, consisting of various kingdoms and principalities, Paris put together three new autonomous states within the French Union: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Drawing lines on a map, Chauvel created Laos by merging the rival kingdoms of Luangprabang, whose monarch became King of Laos, with Champassak, whose pretender was consoled by being made permanent Inspector General of the new state...
...economically troubled U.S. aviation industry is more and more of the view that one can live more cheaply than two. The latest merger being talked about is global in its ambition: to merge Pan American World Airways and its only U.S. rival on the North Atlantic routes, Trans World Airlines...
There were no kind words for the Attorney General's 30-year-old rival: "Teddy Kennedy seeks his party's nomination for the Senate simply because he is the brother of the President. He knows as well as you and I that were he not a coat-tail candidate his name would receive no consideration from any political body for such a high office as he seeks. His academic career is mediocre. His professional career is virtually non-existent. His candidacy is both preposterous and insulting...
...Lydiard tries for a breakthrough in stamina," explains rival Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman. "When a runner like Snell works very hard, he reaches a point where he begins to ache in his joints. The pain is enormous. When that happens, most coaches ease off. Lydiard just keeps him working harder and harder-until he becomes insensitive to the pain." So far, Snell's masochistic training regimen has paid off: when he finished his record-breaking mile in Wanganui, he was hardly panting...