Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What most impresses everyone close to him is Charles de Gaulle's Olympian assurance that the will of De Gaulle will prevail. The instructions for night-duty officers at the Elysee Palace read simply: "Do Not Disturb the President of the Republic Except in Case of World...
...declined to answer Eddie's attack. Instead, he stuck to a solemn discussion of his position on issues-state, national and international -that he had outlined in his opening statement: "Decisions made in the United States Senate will indicate whether the free world or the Communist world will prevail. And if America is to make progress, Massachusetts must make progress." Under questioning from a panel of newsmen, the two got down to disagreement on some specific issues. McCormack said he favored an immediate tax cut "because I don't believe this country is moving as it should." Kennedy...
Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Suzanne Brown receives her lover. He has responsibilities: business and family life. She has passions. Her charms prevail until a second confrontation scene in which his wife drops in for a chat. She has all the answers (she asks all the questions). It becomes apparent from Mr. Lobelius's cowardice in facing either his wife or his lover that we have another ill-fated love on our hands...
...Analogies. Ben Bella has apparently decided to deal with the problem of the troublesome army later, hoping that his hold on the public imagination will balance its strength. As his first order of business, he is desperately trying not only to prevail on the remaining Europeans to stay in Algeria, but also to entice departed pieds-noirs back. In his calmest speech yet, he said last week...
Follesdal, an instructor at Harvard said that the same "qualities and decisions and logical cogency and linguistic philosophers tend to talk for and relish" prevail in phenomenology, which together with Anglo-American thought emphasizes the analysis of meaning...