Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better part of this year trying, in the name of the long-run objective of altering companies' behavior in South Africa, who have spent this time learning about this behavior, trying to formulate policy on it. I would like to see us give this policy some continued opportunities to succeed. I think, if I had more time, I could cite evidence for you, but it is working in a number of instances...
...blurry-eyed bravado, suggests you go see the greatest movie ever made at its midnight showing at the Welles, Pink Flamingoes. Can you hold you liquor? How unshakable is your friendship? Because this movie and its transvestite hero(ine) Divine aim to reverse your digestive process, and may well succeed. Or perhaps you too consider life reducible to the most blatantly vile, the most howlingly revolting possible common denominator...
...Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, and therefore Southie, is credited with driving the snakes out of Ireland. Memories of him succeed in driving the ugliness from South Boston for a week in March every year...
...neighborhoods whose residents blamed Bilandic for a transit authority decision to eliminate several passenger stops so as to serve outlying white areas better. Many residents were also angry at Bilandic's having outmaneuvered black Alderman Wilson Frost, the council's senior member, for the temporary appointment to succeed Daley...
...Byrne gained popularity, Daley appointed her a national Democratic committeewoman. When her mentor suffered a stroke in 1974, she loyally lashed out at those "little men of greed" and "political vultures" who seemed too eager to succeed him. Daley recovered and rewarded Byrne by making her his co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic central committee. She had no illusion of really sharing power with Daley and knew he was mainly meeting national Democratic pressure to upgrade the role of women. But those "little men" at city hall resented her and when Daley died in late 1976, they knocked...