Word: succeeded
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...light on the mysterious "they," Evers charged people who are out to get him with a "long process of harassment and intimidation" dating back to 1963. That was the year his brother Medgar was slain by a sniper's bullet and Charles returned to Mississippi from Chicago to succeed him as field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charles spearheaded a drive that registered 250,000 black voters, and in 1969 became the first black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since Reconstruction. In 1971 he ran for Governor but lost...
Back in 1964, former Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi needed a big favor: a guarantee that his brother Eisaku Sato would succeed ailing Hayato Ikeda as Premier. So Kishi paid a secret visit to a Tokyo businessman who obligingly made a few telephone calls to his friends. As a result, Sato's opponent hastily withdrew from the race, and Sato went on to become Japan's Premier for an unprecedented eight years...
Next morning the President summoned Gerald Ford to notify him, officially and privately, that he was about to succeed to the national summit. For the country, the worst of Watergate was finally over. There would be more trials, perhaps even startling revelations, but they would no longer taint the Oval Office. The renewal had begun...
...landed a seat on the Appropriations Committee and became an expert on the defense budget, an intimidating thicket of statistics that most Congressmen shunned. "He had a tremendous capacity for work," says his half brother Tom. "And let's face it, people who have a capacity for work normally succeed...
...office, Ford has accepted the views of Republican leaders across the country. Ford plans to make his final decision by this week or next. The man he chooses must be confirmed by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress, as was the case when Nixon nominated Ford to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President last fall...