Word: bequeath
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Through his forceful personality and his seniority in the party, Deng in the past has generally been able to impose his will on the country. The question remains whether in the time left to him, he can bequeath that authority and influence to his ideological successors...
...Marines were to take most of their equipment, leaving behind only tiny amounts of ammunition and the elaborate network of underground bunkers in which they had sought refuge. A final problem was to whom they should bequeath the closed airport, though the choice of legatee was not theirs. The Lebanese Army was supposed to take over, in the name of the Gemayel government. At the end, however, the Marines were set to be replaced by members of the Lebanese Sixth Brigade, a predominantly Muslim army unit that had generally remained in its barracks during the recent fighting...
...methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching bones can be found in the masses of data available in various diagrams and portraits in the Countway collection. Most of the books have been donated by former professors; it is not unusual for one professors to bequeath 20,000 books...
...MORE than fitting that the religion the twentieth century chose to bequeath to history was psychoanalysis. More grimly deterministic than anything any Calvinist or Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered...
...billion military budget allotment which President Carter will bequeath his successor--who is sure to boost that total by several more billion--is not just the largest peacetime military budget in American history. It represents a gigantic dollars-for-grabs party. Defense contractors won't even have to compete with each other for the privilege of building mobile missile systems, the new XM1 tanks, and other weapons still on think-tank drawing boards; there will be plenty...