Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, hand-picked Sultan of Morocco, docilely performed an unpleasant duty which his unruly old predecessor had resisted for years. He signed a dahir (decree), dictated by the French, which transferred some of the royal powers to a half-Moorish, half-French administrative council. The dahir was a hard blow at French Morocco's hot-tempered independence movement...
Actinomycin C worked wonders against some malignant tumors in animals. Unlike its predecessor, it had no seriously poisonous side effects. Cautiously (beginning with minute doses that were slowly raised to 250 micrograms), it was given to patients suffering from cancer of the lymphatic system. In several cases, the cancers shrank in size...
...some 40 fired in the past year (all but one by Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie), ten others had appealed for similar redress, but nine temporary employees were turned down by the tribunal, and another case was referred to the lower U.N. Board of Appeal...
...when the time came, the Party of Revolutionary Institutions-Mexico's only real political party-read the popular mood and nominated its most conspicuously honest man. Don Adolfo, as he is known in deference to his years and dignified bearing, is the very opposite of his spectacular predecessor. He dislikes personal publicity, and his idea of a good time is to play dominoes or go for a long walk. A new type of Mexican hero, he seems to be pleasing the people with his cleanup. And the way he is going about it shows a shrewd aptitude...
...beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them plus a few mental attitudes of which his subjects are sufficiently aware to tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot measure them. He cannot detect (and this is where his kinship to Freud ends) emotional factors buried deep in the unconscious, or religious and ethical concepts which are none...