Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Harvard social scientist, David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, this week jumped on the "women-are-afraid-to-succeed" bandwagon. He says that a report he has prepared categorically shows that women's fear of success rises in their four years at Radcliffe, while their male counterparts' fear declines...
...some members of the faculty, as well as some students and administrators, say that studies such as McClelland's, in which variables and measures are defined rather loosely, only succeed in adding fuel to the hardline attitudes involving women prevalent among illustrious members of the Harvard community...
Safety Cage. Bricklin thought he could succeed by selling a car engineered primarily for safety. The Bricklin had retractable bumpers designed to absorb collisions without damage at speeds up to ten miles per hour, roll bars that made the passenger compartment a kind of safety cage, and gull-wing doors that opened by swinging up and out of the way of oncoming traffic. Those features were expensive: the car's price rose from about $8,000 in 1974 to $10,000 this year. Bricklin tried to give the car flash as well as safety appeal; he made only...
...does The Day the Dam Broke, a classic Thurber apocalypse, succeed as a twenty minute dramatic monologue, although Kerry Konrad struggles bravely through it. But in the second act, where the skits are fewer and the acting more demanding, everything comes together, culminating in James Doherty's painfully schizo portrayal of Walter Mitty...
Arnold Miller's UMW reform administration was up against its first great test, and it was widely acknowledged that if the "new UMW" could succeed in re-organizing a mine in Harlan County--for 15 years the stronghold of murderer and corrupt UMW president W.A. (Tony) Boyle--it could succeed anywhere. Reformer Jock Yablonski had feared to campaign there in 1969. The Boyle henchmen who slayed Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds had done the bidding of District 19 officials...