Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grau had picked Prío, his former Labor Minister, to succeed him; he expected that Prío would continue the Grau brand of mild New Dealism. But for a week before the inauguration Habaneras were saying: "Prío will continue the work of the vie jo [old man]-till noon, Oct. 10." Nobody had to tell Prío that Grau's popularity had slipped, that Cubans wanted a change in the way their government...
...camps, how to get them across the ocean, how to support them in this country. But the State Department has told an NSA official that it likes the idea, and if NSA can now interest colleges in a feasible project, the DP plan may somehow, someday succeed...
Paul L. Wright, Jr. '49 resigned as delegation chairman because of "pressure of UN Council Work." Frederick Deane, Jr. '48 was chosen to succeed...
...Muso Suparto's proclamation of an Indonesian "People's Republic" and his seizure of Madiun, Java's third city. Production of Indonesia's rubber, tin and oil and their distribution throughout the world was the basis of Holland's prewar prosperity. If the Communists succeed and choke off revival of this trade, it will take more than Marshall Plan aid to keep The Netherlands afloat...
Anyone with normal power of will can succeed as I did, I feel sure. In 1910, after an attack lasting several days, I determined to end the nuisance in future by bringing the diaphragm under direct control of the will. During future attacks, as I felt the recurrent spasms coming, I concentrated my will power to inhibit it. This entailed an exhausting struggle worse than hiccups, but it was successful . . . When I find I am hiccuping I simply stop, just as I would stop twiddling my watch chain, for instance...