Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone who reads the popular magazines must know, "Lady in the Lake" is something new in movies. You're meant to identify yourself with a private detective through whose eyes you see the picture. If you have the misfortune to succeed, you'll wriggle when you hear yourself (Robert Montgomery) emitting hideous belly-laughs, tossing off smug wisecracks, and kissing a woman who can contort her mouth as if it were a landed cel. But the chances are you won't identify yourself with any body...
...United Nations ever is to succeed, this is the most favorable opportunity it has had," the occupation commander told American correspondents at a luncheon...
Doctors estimate that one U.S. pregnancy out of every three ends in abortion. Some abortions are spontaneous (miscarriages). Some are "therapeutic" (performed to save life). But the vast majority (about 750,000 every year) are illegal. Least likely to succeed are abortions attempted by means of drugs...
Died. Major General John Henry Russell, 74, veteran leatherneck; in Coronado, Calif. At 14, Russell solemnly promised Grover Cleveland that he would succeed if granted a presidential appointment to Annapolis, eventually succeeded in being...
...past three decades, the dominant figure in the scene has been James Michael Curley--he never leaves out the Michael. By statute, he may not succeed himself, but for the most part he has allowed Republicans to fill in the gaps so that no rival strong-man can appear in the majority party. The recent judgment against him by the Federal courts has not dampened the ardor of his adherents or his strength at the polls. When Curley returned from the courts, he was hailed as a hero and the man of the people by Bostonians. One of the first...