Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well aware that when the Republican Party won the White House, it lost the statehouse. When Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew resigns his governorship some time after the Electoral College makes his election official on Dec. 16, Maryland's general assembly is certain to choose a Democrat to succeed him for the remaining two years of his four-year term...
Whether it will or not remains to be demonstrated, for the consequences of the general's decision last week are difficult to foresee. There is always the possibility that the measures he is taking in lieu of devaluation may somehow succeed in stopping the run on the franc. France, after all, is in a far stronger position than Britain was when it devalued last year. Britain's gold and foreign-currency reserves had dwindled to a dangerously low level. France, despite the recent heavy losses, still has $4.1 billion in gold and reserves, and in addition to that...
...does see a chance of that organized both locally and nationally for a new party. "The closeness of the election only masks the fact that the Democratic Party is on the edge of collapse. People don't want what they've got." A new major party might succeed if you "could convince people you'll meet their needs...People must be willing to work, put in money, and have some sense of what they're doing. If you could win 30 Congressional seats in 1970," he challenges, "that would have quite an impact...
Harvard's 45 varsity football letter winners yesterday elected junior defensive end John Cramer to succeed Vic Gatto as captain of next year's team...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--An unabashedly artless production of the Frank Loesser musical. Ideal football weekend entertainment. At AGASSIZ THEATRE...