Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial had been unfair. 2. He did not intend to turn his back on Hiss. 3. Hiss was a Republican. 4. He had warned his predecessor in the State Department about Hiss. 5. Hiss was not guilty...
...homeland, the new Red bosses of Czechoslovakia picked a successor who was more appreciative of the virtues of Communist-style democracy. Within a few days, Vladimir Houdek, a lumpish, round-shouldered Communist with an acute allergy to hard work, arrived at Lake Success spouting epithets at his predecessor. Papanek, he trumpeted, was a traitor to his country and a tool of the Western warmongers...
...president is pretty, brown-haired Anne Gary Pannell, 39, the mother of two sons. Southern-born (in Durham, N. C.), like her predecessor, she went to Oxford for her doctorate in history (Martha went to the University of London), eventually became academic dean of Baltimore's Goucher College for women (Martha was a dean at Radcliffe). In recent years, while global-minded Martha Lucas became a UNESCO delegate and started a Junior Year Abroad program for Sweet Briar, global-minded Anne Pannell has spent much of her time arranging international student scholarships...
...Board of Overseers had run the College in the period prior to 1650, but the first Corporation, made up of Dunster and six young teachers, assumed almost at once the operation of the College. The Harvard Corporation was the predecessor of many later educational and business groups, but its executive set-up has seldom been copied...
...owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf to any plea short of wedding bells...