Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks to smash south against the main German armies. The Germans halted the drive with heavy counterattacks against the Russian right flank northwest of Stalino. This week Berlin claimed that other forces crossed the Donets River near Izyum. If this report was true, it meant that the Germans may succeed in breaking up the Red Army's drives through the Donets and toward the Dnieper...
Airman to England. To succeed General Eisenhower as Commander of U.S. Forces in the European theater went Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, whom many flyers rank No. 1 among American military airmen. Silver-haired, deep-chested Frank Andrews is the soft-spoken father of U.S. air power by virtue of his term (1935-39) as first chief of the GHQ Air Force. He was the ranking and most determined advocate of the now-battle-tested heavy bomber...
Just before game time the team chose Earle D. Acker '44 of North Quincy to succeed Johnny Paine as captain. Last year Acker centered the third line, but early this winter Coach Chase moved him to defense, where he stayed until moving up to center the first line before midyears...
Immediately before tonight's game, the squad will elect a captain to succeed graduated Captain Johnny Paine...
...Eden? In the past year's Gallup polls in Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...