Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government ministries are Chou's responsibility; the ministries would probably prefer to concentrate on the country's rice and steel quotas. But Mao and Lin's watchers, following events like soap opera devotees, wonder if Chou will be able to prevail up on Mao and Lin to soften the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the provincial chiefs and his own bureaucrats...
Miller--and Horvath yesterday--pointed out that this attitude does not prevail when the foundations give money to the sciences or the arts...
...Afrikaner is a prisoner both of circumstances and of his rigid fascist ideology. Fear dominates him. Hatred churns in his stomach. One can only hope, like Abram Fischer, that the integrity of man will ultimately win through and justice prevail. That seems to be South Africa's only hope. It is a slender thread...
Responding to a remark by El Khatib that many of the Democratcies in Europe were only superficial and that many of the "Democrats" are dangerous, Murugesu Sivasithamparam, Member of Parliament from Ceylon said, "If I am a demagogue I don't mind, Democracy must and shall prevail in Asia...
Providing past percentages prevail, one out of eight students figures to squeeze out at least one grade below C-. But almost two out of three will get nothing but A's and B's -- a much higher percentage than Harvard-Radcliffe students manage during the academic year...