Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take Your Pick. And lastly, it passed two pieces of legislation which would allow Hummon to succeed himself. With this and the unit-voting extension, Hummon could take his pick: he could either continue as governor or take his political ambitions to the U.S. Senate; some said he was narrowing his eyes speculatively at Georgia's senior Senator Walter George, whose term...
...common efforts of the freedom-loving French do not succeed in bringing our country back into the camp of democracy and peace, if later our country should be dragged against its will into a war against the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet army, defending the cause of freedom and socialism, should be brought to pursue the aggressors onto our soil, could the workers and people of France have any other attitude toward the Soviet army than has been that of the peoples of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
...Result. The government of India went further. In Madras, 73-year-old Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel thundered: "Labor is not in the hands of people who can guide it properly. Unless they succeed in removing Communists, there will be nothing but ruin for this country." Patel did not wait for the unions to arrest Communist leaders. He started a roundup of his own. By week's end, some 1,000 Communists were crammed into already-bulging provincial jails. In the New Delhi legislature a bill was introduced which would impose stiff fines and jail sentences for strikers against...
...value of the "love for sale" ads by breaking into the Anzeigen Zentrale, one of Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...
...unique. Elsewhere in Latin America, the U.S. still faced the man-sized job of convincing yanqui-baiting nationalists that its heart was pure. Only when latinos came to look on the U.S. as their Good Partner as well as their Good Neighbor could Harry Truman's plan fully succeed...