Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then in the tenth, Mills suddenly came to life. He threw a good roundhouse right and a succession of hooks. Gus went down twice. He managed to finish the fight, but lost his light heavyweight crown, and just about any chance he might have to succeed Joe Louis...
Patricia Stenz has flung a bold challenge that she would "grow hair on any person" under the observation of the A.M.A. Should she not succeed, her failure would be well advertised, and her business would probably go under. On the face of it, this is in the noble Galilean tradition of experiment. The medieval thinker, embodied in Dr. Morris Fishbein, rejects experiment and observation, and asserts from his armchair that the thing is impossible. Are the "dead cells" in his scalp, or are they a few centimeters lower...
...would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...spokesman for more than two years, waved goodbye to Manhattan, sailed for home. To the press he was as laconic as ever. Was he happy to be going home? "Yes, I am glad . . ." Did he expect to come back? "I hope not." What about the U.N.? "It absolutely must succeed...
Dore Schary, RKO's earnest, gifted executive vice president in charge of production, was out (TIME, July 12). Like a thousand bumblebees in a clover field, the buzz of Hollywood speculation hung on the question of who would succeed Schary. Secretive Howard Hughes would not say. "It will be," he said, "someone you least suspect, a shocker...