Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain that F.A.O. would at least be an advisory and educational body, possibly something more. Said F.A.O.'s new director-general, 65-year-old Sir John Boyd Orr, Scottish nutritionist and farmer: "If we succeed in reaching all our objectives it will be a miracle. But the days of miracles are not passed...
...stepping carefully, calculating just the china to be smashed. But the horns and the hooves were still there, and would be so long as he practiced what he had preached to Argentines: "The voice of freedom makes itself heard in this land, and I do not believe anyone will succeed in drowning it. I shall hear it in Washington with the same clarity with which I hear it from Buenos Aires...
...opposition candidate General Eduardo Gomes back on his heels and left the Government's uneasy Communist allies stunned. A presidential decree 1) advanced the date of state elections to coincide with the presidential elections, 2) required state governors to resign and stand for election if they want to succeed themselves...
...doubted that any enforced "re education" could succeed...
...life," she says, "I knew what was wrong with production, but this is the first time I could say, 'Wait a minute, let's fix it.' " Apparently she said this often (to everybody from scriptwriter to booking agent), regally and grimly (because she desperately wanted to succeed in her new role...