Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...
...about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback by his predecessor, Indira Gandhi...
...become distinctly nonideological. "They have no overarching doctrine," says Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They're taking cases as they come in pragmatic fashion." In the early '70s some expected Chief Justice Burger to rally the court around him in conservative restraint, just the way his predecessor, Earl Warren, galvanized the court to judicial activism. But this year Blackmun abandoned Burger 30% of the tune, Powell 26%. Together with Justices John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart and Byron White, they form an uncertain and searching middle core, sometimes balancing, sometimes just unpredictable...
...money supply and to keep dollars at home. In private debates and public remarks, Miller has pleaded with the White House, of which he is independent, to launch a determined anti-inflationary policy of its own. Neither his actions nor his words differed greatly from those of his predecessor, Arthur Burns. But while Burns' pontificating only annoyed the White House, Miller's unpretentious yet urgent advocacy has had a marked effect...
...Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders of the Patriotic Front, was killed by a land mine last week, the result, said the Zambian government, of a factional rivalry within the Nkomo camp. The victim was Alfred Mangena, 35. His predecessor, Jason Moyo, had been killed by a letter bomb two years ago, also because of intra-Front rivalries, and Mangena himself had been wounded in an assassination attempt earlier this year...