Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
Also echoing and re-echoing was President Eisenhower's Christmas message to the nations behind the Iron Curtain, in which he said: "The American people recognize the trials under which you are suffering . . . and share your faith that right in the end will prevail to bring you once again among the free nations of the world." In Moscow, Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev roared that the message violated the "Spirit of Geneva," was "crude interference" in the affairs of other nations (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Descendants of the Prophet are numerous in North Africa, but few of them have the prophetic sense so inherently well developed as Hadj Thami El Glaoui, the 80-year-old Pasha of Marrakech. Foreseeing a few years ago that a tough French line might prevail in Morocco, El Glaoui brokered the shady business of selling out Morocco's legitimate Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. But when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef and forced Premier Edgar Faure into making bargains with Moslem nationalists, wily old El Glaoui had different insight. "Must I become your government's enemy...
...That phase may now be ending. I believe that all four of the heads of government who were at Geneva wanted that result and that each contributed to it. In consequence, a new spirit does indeed prevail, with greater flexibility and less brittleness in international relations...
...Enquiry without faith may prevail for a little, but in the end the unbalance, the list to one side, will take it off course and cause it to lose not only direction but any sense of direction, Horton said...