Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nearly every member-413 out of 435-turned up to cast a vote on President Carter's request to end the 42 month-old U.S. embargo on arms for Turkey. The ban had infuriated the Turks and weakened the southern flank of NATO. Whether or not Carter would succeed in persuading Congress to lift the embargo was seen as a major test for his Administration...
Bernard Hinault, marathon bicyclist, explaining the philosophy that won for him the 1978 Tour de France: "I have no complexes. That's the only way to succeed...
...Mouse--At last someone has managed to succeed in making a decent mystery murder movie this summer--you even wonder "who did it?" until the very end. This film really has everything in it, and is well done to boot. A big time, capitalist-industrialist type is mysteriously murdered and director Claude Lelouch has cleverly thrown enough clinkers into the mystery, including some good leftist twists about the rich and the poor, to make it worth your money...
...approaching women on Havana's streetcorners, Evans always gave his subjects the freedom and space to interact within their own environment. Levitt's lonely man watching TV on a streetcorner, Friedlander's self-portrait in a sleazy hotel room and Evans' dreaming sailor on the subway--these photographs succeed because of the seeker's sensitivity in approaching his subject. Just as Evans' sequence of closeups of miners' faces bespeaks the unjustified nature of their existence, Robert Frank's photograph of wealthy office seekers with their tall, black silk hats captures the utmost fatuousness of political figures. They are given enough...
...adversity, he adds. In his first year on his own, he was struck by an almost biblical series of plagues: early frost, freakish heat, then hepatitis. Friends in the valley pitched in to help him pick and press his crop. "You know," he muses, "people like to see you succeed. People like to see a family working together...