Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...
...Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered predecessor with a mortall) wounded Arab girl, may add up to a novel but not when surveyed with Ollier's eye for engineering detail. Consensus: the prize went to an incorruptible theorist rather than a gifted writer...
...Afghanistan: Crowe's predecessor in South Africa, Henry A. Byroade, 45, West Pointer who gave up his Army commission (brigadier general) for a diplomatic career in 1952, was Ambassador to Egypt...
...Jordan: Byroade's predecessor in Afghanistan, Sheldon T. Mills, 54, Foreign Service veteran who took up his first overseas post in Bolivia in 1929, served as Ambassador to Ecuador before moving to Afghanistan...
...loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...