Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, Mr. Wallace, as a possible Presidential aspirant, must weigh considerations of practical politics. His timing must be perfect, for if he hopes to succeed, he must offer any plan he might formulate at the politically "right" instant...
...Soviet reply to the proposals made by Secretary Marshall" did not seem to be the "crack of doom" to world federalists. Vishinsky's reply, and indeed the whole history of the UN, have been the unhappy fulfillment of our prediction that the UN, as presently constituted, could never succeed. We are still convinced that the world must choose between world federal government and world destruction...
Congressman John Elliott Ranlcin of Mississippi, who hopes to succeed his late, filibustering Tweedledee, Theodore Bilbo, in the Senate, let go a memorable tweedledum as he promised to carry on the filibustering. "A filibuster is legitimate," said he, "when it is legitimate...
...effects of small exposures may be quite invisible, and the mutational effects are so remote that there will be a strong temptation ... to disregard them. Yet these tiny effects, as regards mutation, are cumulative over an indefinite period. . . . Exposure to the radiation . . . repeated generation after generation . . . could in time succeed in destroying the human gene system beyond recovery...
...descendants had established a dynasty and a tyranny. Ivan III married Zoe, the niece of the last Eastern Roman emperor, who brought Byzantium's religion, architecture and incense-heavy intrigue to Moscow, which was now more powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin: it still stands today.† Then Moscow was ruled...