Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Away from Parliament Hill, he spent most of his time at Laurier House, a homely old mansion willed to him by the widow of his predecessor. In the attic study hung a lighted picture of his mother, the only woman in King's life. On a nearby wall was a framed copy of a public notice offering ?1,000 reward for the capture of William Lyon Mackenzie, his grandfather and namesake, who led a rebellion for responsible government in Canada...
Brigadier General Chung II Kwon took over as chief of staff of the battered South Korean army when his predecessor, General Choi Pyung Duk, proved unable to stem the North Korean invasion. Rated a "first class officer" by U.S. military men, 36-year-old General Chung was trained in the rough-spoken Japanese army, but has long been noted in Korea for his polite, unsoldierly speech. Says earnest, spectacled General Chung: "There are two types of army people: one is the fighter, the excitable, rough type. The other is the planner. It is the planner's duty to remain...
Composed of a single plastic and Fiberglas shell mounted on legs, the new chair is more roomy, stable and luxurious, but just as simple as its predecessor. Pictures of the chair were being reproduced in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and an enthusiastic House Beautiful editor rhapsodically described it as "the sitting sensation of modern design...
Last week, 64-year-old President Ashby decided that the sanitation process was complete and it was time to move over. His successor: Dr. Raymond B. Blakeny, Congregational minister and onetime China missionary, who promised "to do my best to build upon the firm foundation of my predecessor...
Picked by the Literary Guild as its July selection. World Enough and Time seems certain to go bounding right up the bestseller lists. Like its predecessor, it is rich with authentic Americana and bulging with violence, drama and seething characters. But it is also a strangely uneven novel which wades through all the conventional heroics and posturings of the mine-run historical novel before it finally hits its stride...