Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates if they knew anybody who wanted a radio announcer...
...When [people] try to get rid of manlike, or, as they are called, 'anthropomorphic,' images, they merely succeed in substituting images of some other kinds. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says one, 'but I do believe in a great spiritual force.' What he has not noticed is that the word 'force' has let in all sorts of images about winds and tides and electricity and gravitation. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says another, 'but I do believe we are all parts...
...Black Valley. Only the black and blasted valley of the Ruhr could produce the coal and steel to make .the Marshall approach work. Other conferences were discussing the Ruhr. If these failed, the 16-nation conference in the Grand Palais could not succeed, and they, in turn, could amount to little unless the Marshall approach actually resulted in a workable program...
Citing Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, as an authority, the editorial said that democratic governments if they were to succeed required "office holders of sufficiently high quality...
...Education, which pays her way, had not interfered with what she tried to teach. But presumably she will run afoul of a new Polish law to test the party-line faithfulness of its teachers. Says Anne, who hopes she will be allowed another year on the job: "If I succeed in having even 20 Poles speak English well and understand about America, then I'll have done a good job for the first time in my life...