Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More often than not, New York producers operate on an avaricious creed: if at first you do succeed, try it again and again. The current golden format is the confessional musical. It emerged as a shining triumph in A Chorus Line. Between dance numbers, each cast member explains why dancing became a kind of Holy Grail. In Runaways, the street urchins tell pathetic tales of the violent and loveless homes from which they fled...
...political and ideological cloak failed to listen to the cry from the whole of mankind that this man be spared. With his death, barbarity seems to want to kill not a man, but thinking and intelligence and liberty. Yet while this death appalls and disturbs, it will never succeed in defeating us. In that way, a tragic error has been committed by these wretched heirs of the most barbarous assassins that mankind has known. " -Giovanni Leone, President of Italy, on television last week...
...Fahd would almost surely succeed Khalid as King. The new Crown Prince would probably be Prince Abdullah, 57, currently Saudi Arabia's Second Deputy Prime Minister, although there are rumors that Fahd's ambitious brother Sultan has been lobbying within family circles for the post. Meanwhile, some promising third-generation royals are beginning to make their mark, most notably the eight sons of the late King Faisal. Among them are Abdullah, a businessman and poet; Saud, the urbane, Princeton-educated Foreign Minister; Khalid, governor of the remote Asir region; and Bandar, a member of the military staff...
...trustees instead selected David C. Knapp, provost of Cornell University. Knapp will succeed Robert C. Wook, who resigned the UMass presidency in December partially because of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's budgetary program...
Though Uemura's one-man conquest of the North Pole is unique, his expedition was the fifth to succeed since the U.S. Navy's Robert E. Peary and his six-man team first attained the North Pole in 1909. Like Peary, Uemura had set off from Ellesmere Island, now part of Canada's Northwest Territories. Early in the trip, 30-ft.-high formations of compressed ice known as pressure ridges blocked his route across the frozen Arctic Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping...