Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mist of insecticide. The picture, praised by the critics for its "visual power," was drowned in a downpour of public inattention. Killer's Kiss came next, a story about a pug and a floozy; financed by some friends of the family, it thudded even louder than its predecessor...
...school's General Education program clearly stems from Harvard, and its English Composition course required of virtually all freshmen, is patterned after the Harvard predecessor of Gen. Ed Ahf. Language and physical training requirements are also similar...
Priests in Italy, according to a Vatican report, currently own 30,850 motor scooters, and in terms of sacraments and good works, the average priest's efficiency has climbed to about 3,000% over that of his road-trudging 19th century predecessor. Another straw in this high wind is the decline of the more introverted Benedictines and foot-slogging Franciscans in favor of the fast-moving Jesuits, whose high-octane practicality thrives on the motor-scooter age. Pope Pius XII has been a longtime friend of automotion; last fall he called for "greater and greater speed to the glory...
...Khrushchev's principal and most expert job was reconstructing the Ukrainian Communist Party. The old leaders, including his predecessor Stanislav Kossior, were executed, and the membership recast. The new party was a tight, tough instrument of Stalinist policy...
...ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies of the people." Adding insult to injury, Mikoyan named Khrushchev's liquidated predecessor Kossior as one such and asserted, to the sound of laughter, that "Ukrainian historians will be found who will write a history of the emergence and development of the Ukrainian socialist state better than some Moscow historians." The speech, opening up the whole case against Stalin, and by indirection the complicity...