Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gotta Stay Happy," an adaption of a Saturday Evening Post serial, has a number of "guaranteed" comedy situations and "funny" lines, but they all expired years ago with age and exhaustion. Stewart and Fontaine try hard enough, but they never succeed in convincing the audience, and don't seem to persuade themselves of the worth of the whole enterprise...
Walkout. Canny Moisés Lebensohn, Radical Party leader, sniffed the heady, Peronista atmosphere and waited his chance for a dramatic move. It came when Peronista Arturo Sampay admitted in an unguarded moment that Article 77, revised to allow Peron to succeed himself, might be restored to its original form after the 1952 elections. Lebensohn leaped...
Less than 1% of conservatory students have "great talent" and can succeed on the concert platform, he decided. What about the others...
Said Foster and Dennis: "If, despite the efforts of the peace forces of America and the world, Wall Street should succeed in plunging the world into war, we would oppose it as an unjust, aggressive, imperialist war, as an undemocratic and an anti-Socialist war, destructive of the deepest interest of the American people...
...Chosen to succeed Wallace H. White Jr. as Senate majority leader...