Word: succeeded
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...Second Toughest Job. Clifford will have to do a good deal more if he is to succeed in what Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis describes as "the second most difficult job in the Government, second only to the presidency, and perhaps the second most difficult job in the world...
...part, the President has asked Congress for $350 million to subsidize the extra cost of training the first 100,000 of hard-core unemployed. Still, the load on private enterprise looks hefty enough. Business must not only provide the jobs but devise motivations and teaching methods that can succeed where all the planners and dreamers, schools and churches, labor, and even Government have largely failed...
There were lots of middle class kids, but not upper middle class, professionals, and a lot of working class kids. It was a tough school, football gang type. No pressure to succeed, in fact just the opposite. I could taxi along very comfortably. I even copied some of the work I had to do from some of the other kids. I adapted to that extent. My first semester I had a 93 average. I was smarter than all but one or two kids in the school so I had no trouble getting...
Mephistopheles (played by Andrea Teuber '64) begs Faustus to stay away from the underworld, but Mephistopheles is such a stoic sufferer that he doesn't succeed in convincing Faustus that hell is really that awful. He does convince us, however, provided we can believe that someone could keep so quiet about his misery...
...Russians did succeed in convincing the lone-wolf regime of Rumania to attend-but at a price. They agreed 1) that the conference would be downgraded to the status of a mere preliminary to a more ambitious future conference; 2) that no party-meaning China-would be "excommunicated"; and 3) that, in order to give the meeting even less importance, party theoreticians such as their own Mikhail Suslov, and not the top bosses, would lead the delegations. Even after getting these concessions, the Rumanians are likely to attend mostly to block any resolutions that might hamper their independence; the same...