Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find a new commandant for the U.S. Marine Corps to succeed retiring General A. A. Vandegrift, President Truman last week delved down to the eighth name on the rank list. His man: Major General Clifton B. Gates, 54, one of the Pacific war's most brilliant island-hopping campaigners, now boss of the Marine school at Quantico...
...nobody's surprise, the President last week also appointed General Omar N. Bradley to succeed Ike Eisenhower as the Army's chief of staff. Bradley will move over from his civilian post as Veterans Administrator as soon as General Eisenhower goes to Columbia University...
...column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time he had finished almost everyone but the Communists seemed satisfied. Prio hoped that his Senate success had placed him securely in the No. 1 position to succeed his old friend, President Grau...
...book out last week, called Poetics of Music (Harvard; $2.50), Igor Stravinsky tried to explain how he does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper...
...couldn't write a workable constitution. Few thought Brazil would ever again have a free press. We have done all that. Now we are faced with the fourth great step along the road to democracy-a constitutional program for governing. Brazil cannot afford to fail. We have to succeed-and we will...