Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clustered in the next echelon are Marvin Watson, who helps Valenti in scheduling the presidential day, Jake Jacobsen, a troubleshooter and sometime legislative liaison man who aspires to succeed O'Brien as chief White House representative on Capitol Hill, and Lee White, a legal adviser, who may also depart soon...
DARLING. Julie Christie irresistibly shows how to succeed in bed without hardly trying. This tale has its own kind of moral: when you finally get there, it's time to go somewhere else...
...cannot run for re-election and thus has no need to court the segregationist vote, last month urged his state to comply with the new federal Voting Rights Act. In any event, warned the Governor, "any effort through the courts to obtain relief from this act is unlikely to succeed...
...today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. Emmanuel Akwiwu, 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. Chief Shafi Lawal...
...tried to light a fire in the stove with his sodden matches, but did not succeed. When all his matches were spent, he and his wife wrapped themselves in their coats and some old rags they found there, and lay down...