Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall a part of the Inaugural Address of President Johnson's predecessor, and I can still hear these words as they were spoken that bright, cold afternoon of Jan. 20, 1961: ". . .in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside...
...assumed the role of a pioneer, a twentieth century Whitman, not only in the exploitation of untraditional themes but also in the development of a style that takes no cue from any predecessor--not even from Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary...
...last week to succeed Joe Block was his cousin, Vice Chairman Philip D. Block Jr., 61, whose father was Inland's first president. Having worked so long in Joe's shadow, Phil is regarded as a chip off the old Block who will pretty much continue his predecessor's policies...
...fell at a time when the Federal government under Kurt Keisinger and Willy Brandt, Albertz's predecessor at the Schonberger Rathaus, seeks frantically to expand its contacts with the East. Bonn has sent delegations in recent months to most of the Eastern European states to work out trade agreements and to pave the way for an exchange of ambassadors. The Germans must move carefully in this, for they must not in their eagerness suggest to Russia that they are competing for the favor of the East European states. Nor can they forget, however appealing forgetfulness on this point might...
Last year, the 1967 HPC did not take office until the beginning of the Spring term, and then met jointly with its predecessor for only three weeks...