Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families have doubled up with friends or relatives. The National Housing Agency estimates that about 3,000,000 additional families-newly weds and veterans rejoining their wives-will look for homes next year. At the most optimistic estimates of new construction and vacancies, only a third of them will succeed. The other 2,000,000 will be the John Goffs and the William Wimberlys...
...Communists were not likely to succeed, but the effort in the field increased their chances of partial success - or, at least, of survival - at the conference table in Chungking. They were bound to make the effort, and Chiang Kai-shek was duty-bound to forestall them where he could, fight them where he must...
...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...drawings, made during the Nazi occupation of France, were simple, linear statements of the things Matisse likes most to see-flowers, faces and figures. He believes art should be a "mental soother . . . devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ... It is through [the human figure] that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand...
...Midshipmen hardly looked like one of the two teams voted most likely to succeed in 1945. Army, the experts' other pre-season choice, did. Last week, the Cadets' well-seasoned T attack steamrollered Duke 4840-13 for victory No. 5. It was such easy going that All-America Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and All-America Halfback Glenn ("Junior") Davis-Mister Inside and Mister Outside -had what amounted to a day off: they scored only three touchdowns, let the second-stringers have a whirl...