Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rumors that Gund Hall might never be built. A second committee--with an equal number of faculty and students--had been organized to investigate complaints about the project and a three-month inquiry into the feasibility of Gund Hall began. Although the committee eventually reaffirmed the program of its predecessor, the inquiry generated a great deal of bitterness between the faculty, the design firm, and the students...
...Neither Peng Teh-huai, Lin's predecessor as Defense Minister until his ouster in 1959, nor Head of State Liu Shao-chi, who was purged in 1966 but has still not been replaced, was ever officially designated heir apparent, as Lin was, but each had worn the mantle of succession for several years preceding his political demise...
...family on television." He added: "We have a dog, too, called Pumpkin." At a convention of the Retail Clerks International Association in Honolulu, where the McGovern-Eagleton ticket got a labor endorsement that was all the more welcome because of the crisis, Eagleton invoked Harry Truman, a predecessor as a U.S. Senator from Missouri and as a Democratic candidate for Vice President. "I hope I have some small measure of the guts he possessed," said Eagleton. The shouting delegates replied: "Give 'em hell, Tom!" It was an eloquent self-defense and a larruping attack on the Republican enemy. Eagleton...
...Sadat rewarded the Arab Socialist Union Congress with a first-class example of it. Mopping his brow often in a sultry hall, modulating his voice from whisper to thespian holler, Sadat delivered a largely off-the-cuff speech that was twice as long as any address delivered by his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and every bit as dramatic. Excerpts...
...press conference last week, President Nixon hit back at the accusers, taking a particularly sharp slap at Waldheim, whose charges he described as "hypocritical." Added the President: "I note with interest that the Secretary-General, just like his predecessor, seized upon this enemy-inspired propaganda." Nixon vigorously defended his bombing policy as "restrained," and said: "If it were the policy of the U.S. to bomb the dikes, we would take them out, the significant part, in a week. We don't do so because we are trying to avoid civilian casualties, not cause them." Actually, that judgment in part...