Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview yesterday, Twersky said that he was more than honored by the appointment and would consider it as a personal challenge. Reminiscing about his predecessor and teacher, he said, "He is certainly one of the giants of humanistic scholarship of this century...
...Like his predecessor MacLeish. Fitzgerald's career has included journalism as well as poetry. His first book, "Poems," was published in 1935 while he was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1936 he began writing business and financial news for Time magazine. His second book. "A Wreath for the Sea," was published in 1943, the same year he left Time to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserve...
...positive faith in our future." But the paper was soon contracting like the empire. Circulation, which soared to 3,500,000 at the start, has tumbled to a depressing 1,400,000, only 200,000 above the last days' circulation of the Sun's defunct predecessor, the Daily Herald...
Unlike Rómulo Betancourt, his friend and fiery predecessor, Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni avoids table-pounding talk and precipitate action. "What I do," he says, "I do after lengthy consultation. A chief of state cannot ignore other voices." Last week, in his first annual message to Congress, Leoni stood for almost three hours in Caracas' capitol building and demonstrated the effects of his velvet glove...
...slowdown order came from the Secretariat of State, headed by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Vagnozzi's predecessor as Apostolic Delegate and one of Rome's most powerful conservatives...