Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet threat: I shall be going to Camp David determined to reach an agreement. Such an agreement would be good for Israel and for Egypt, and for peace, which is our innermost striving. But there is also another reason why I wish the meeting to succeed. And that is the international prestige of the President of the United States. We in Israel are an integral part of the free world, and the free world is under constant onslaught. You can see what is happening around us. Aden, Southern Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique-all these countries were actually taken over...
...five fearful and defiant days, the city of Matagalpa had stood proud: a rebellious stronghold against the mechanized might of Nicaragua's National Guard and its detested dictator, Anastasio Somoza. The sudden and apparently spontaneous uprising by the townspeople did not succeed in bringing down the regime. But the fact that it had occurred at all was symptomatic of the troubles facing Somoza's government. Following on the audacious capture the week before of Managua's National Palace, after which members of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front won the release of 59 political prisoners and received...
...would be a tragedy if American labor were to heed that advice. For all the mistakes they have made, unions are an indispensable force for industrial democracy. No program to control inflation can succeed without the support of labor, which will not be forthcoming unless it has a public-spirited leadership. Unfortunately, if the unions follow their present policies, they can only decline further, to the country's detriment...
...detecting its waves, says Harvard's Smarr, is "like measuring fluctuations in the dis tance between the earth and sun equal to the diameter of a human hair." So far no one has been able to accomplish that feat. But investigators in the U.S. and abroad are hoping to succeed with a new generation of extremely sensitive gravity detectors that rely on lasers, devices using superchilled metals and other advanced gadgetry...
...papal ring. The purpose of this traditional ritual is to prevent forgeries during the interim. Also that day Villot sealed up Paul's private quarters, leaving his papers intact. (When Pope John's diaries were released after the 1963 conclave, they showed that privately, he hoped Montini would succeed him. Paul, however, directed that all his personal papers be burned after his death...