Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassenites had expected an obstacle: plump, vivacious Mrs. Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate to succeed him. They settled on tall, teetotaling Luther Youngdahl, state Supreme Court justice...
...postwar drive for higher pay. They burned brightest over the G.M. workers' red-haired Walter P. Reuther, leader of 175,000 members in the strike against G.M. Last weekend the heads of 17 Michigan auto locals issued a call to draft Reuther for the U.A.W. presidency to succeed bumbling, good-natured R. J. Thomas. The ambitious leader of the G.M. strikers said he "would be guided by the democratic will of . . . the union...
...noisy, prolonged hearings before the Board of Education, Miss Quinn's fellow teachers and several of her pupils testified that she had sneered at Italian-Americans as "greasy foreigners," had declared tolerance "bunk," and said that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential...
...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...
There was good reason to believe they would succeed. Almost overnight, Canada's youngest university had become its second largest (7,000 students), outranked only by Toronto (11,000). In the past year U.B.C. added law courses to its curriculum, won a pledge of $5,000,000 for new buildings from Provincial Premier John Hart, announced that it would offer first-year courses in medicine and pharmacy in September. It was also making plans to teach dentistry, optometry, music, dramatics, physical education, possibly journalism. In noncultural fields it was soaring, too. The Thunderbird basketball team (sometimes called the "Blunder...