Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started. I don't know who collared whom, who was seeking what or whether they all found it. I know they toyed with the notion of starting a commune and quickly settled for a community. Most of the collective or cooperative ventures failed or at least did not quite succeed. Political and philosophical intentions that bloomed in the late '60s did not overcome entrenched individualism. No one applied as much energy to assigned tasks as to personal projects. No one cared meticulously for the machinery the group held in common...
...year's presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter had opposed the Ford Administration's arms sales to Zaire, saying they were "fueling the East-West arms race in Africa." While watching the developments in Zaire closely, the new Administration remains hopeful that Nigeria's mediating efforts may still succeed. Behind the scenes, Washington may have played a part in soliciting aid for Mobutu from Morocco, France and Egypt, but officially it remained aloof. Said a White House spokesman: "We do not see the situation as an East-West confrontation...
Food of Love. They are an odd couple as Allen envisions them, ill-matched in more than appearance. Alvy's comedy, like Woody's, is based on an all too realistic assessment of self and world. Most people succeed at romance because, for the length of time it requires to make a conquest, they can imagine themselves as different from what they are-tall, dark and handsome rather than short, reddish-haired and bespectacled. It is a state that Allen (more properly his public persona) can never attain. Similarly, most of us get through life by imagining that...
...well as getting a third of my power," said Ford (Caldwell takes the new title of vice chairman). lacocca, it seems, does not have much cause for complaint; his $970,000 annual compensation (salary and bonuses) equals Ford's. Ford could serve out his term, Caldwell could succeed him, retire himself, and lacocca still would be young enough to move into the chairman's job-assuming Edsel Ford did not make...
...with no gold records, foreign groups on their first trip through L.A. and all teen-agers (punk rock) belong strictly to the C list, centered at a sticky-floored club called the Starwood. An unstated rule restricts them to the east end of the Strip until they mature or succeed...