Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food for the Poets. Beating their way through this thicket of conflicting interests, the movers and shakers of the General Assembly were steadily working their way toward a resolution as bland as porridge. At week's end the compromise most likely to succeed appeared to be a Norwegian resolution that-in suitably vague terms-would authorize U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to "make the U.N. presence felt" in Lebanon and Jordan as a prelude to withdrawal of U.S. and British forces...
Jordan. Reassured by the arrival of 800 British reinforcements, King Hussein, under heavy guard, began to move about more freely, helicoptered to the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem where he told a Jordanian army audience "we shall never allow troublemakers, Communist lackeys and atheists to succeed in undermining this nation." But the arrests of pro-Nasser suspects continued with monotonous regularity: 27 Jordanians were standing trial for smuggling in guns and munitions from Syria, and several of them seemed certain to be publicly hanged; 20 others were swept up by the police as members of a gang of terrorists and bomb...
Pursuing his own line toward Khrushchev, De Gaulle wrote his reply in longhand, had it typed, then carefully corrected it in his own hand. He accepted the idea of a summit session in principle, but pointed out that such a conference could not "succeed except in an atmosphere of objectivity and serenity." Citing blustering passages in Khrushchev's invitation, he asked: "Why compare [the U.S.-British intervention] with the aggression once committed by Hitler against Poland? Hitler, alas, was not alone...
Murphy listened attentively, acting the role of a friendly observer ready to help, but always making clear that the U.S. hopes urgently for a peaceful internal settlement of Lebanon's crisis. The July 24 parliamentary deadline passed for choosing a new President to succeed Chamoun, whose six-year term expires in September. Nonetheless, the Speaker's postponement of elections until July 31 gave promise that a solution might be found...
...answer the insults with a coup would cost thousands of lives. Castro León resigned. But the explosive issue is far from settled. The Communists are growing stronger by the day and will try desperately for some form of Popular Front victory in the elections. If they succeed, the military will probably start plotting in earnest. The government's failure to provide responsible, moderate leadership could lead to a bloody showdown between extremists of the left and right...