Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of his option, Frazer has an incentive to build greater future value into Graham-Paige. But he also has a more personal urge to succeed. Only last September, Frazer left Willys-Overland after falling out with Ward Canaday, Willys' board chairman. Into the vacated post went Charles Sorensen from Ford, at $52,000 a year (TIME, June...
...succeed Brereton in command of the Ninth Air Force, Eisenhower released a top-flight air officer from his own staff. Close-mouthed Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, 45, veteran attack pilot...
...Hitler] represents the opposite of an indication of deteriorating morale. . . . We must pass through this hell of resistance, difficulties and dangers before we can come out into the open again at the end of the war and breathe the fresh air. There can be no doubt that we shall succeed. We must succeed, or else all of us are lost...
...rate, he doesn't succeed, and he's the one who is put out of the way-- by the hero sleuth, John Cotten. Cotten really goes for Bergman, and when he tracks down Bad-Man Boyer in the corner of the attic, just in the act of putting the snatch on the jewels, he lets him have it. No more Boyer. And Master Cotten is left with Bergman all to himself. And they no doubt live happily ever after. It's just as simple as that...
...American League champion is still anybody's guess, but many a fan favors the leading Browns, who have never yet won a pennant. To succeed, Manager Luke Sewell's hopefuls must hold their slim lead not only against the strongly bidding New York Yankees (who became even stronger this week with Veteran Frank Crosetti's return from a West Coast war job), but also every other club in the tightly bunched eight...