Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation, moved into the third week of the nlp-and-tuck Middle East crisis, and it was still too soon to guess whether Holloway was headed for success or failure. "The irony of it," as a Pentagon officer put it, "is that he can fail greatly but only succeed quietly." But already Admiral Holloway and his men, by their show of great power and great restraint, have laid out some fundamental guidelines for their countrymen and their allies on Lebanon's shifting sands...
...Williams Jr. rode high and hard until this month, and then he swung the ragged blade of bigotry against the wrong people: Georgia politicians. Backing a rabid racist, Baptist Preacher W. T. Bodenhamer, to succeed Griffin in his scandal-scarred governor's chair, T. V. Williams Jr. even smeared Lieutenant Governor S. Ernest Vandiver in a headline charge that...
...most agile sprout ("He is a good Christian boy, and he can do a lot better than rock 'n' roll"), Jesse stoutly declares that he isn't aiming to get ahead on another's fame: "I'm on my own and am trying to succeed...
...could blow his horn so marvelously that, through him, jazz achieved a new dimension. But he wound up broke, sodden drunk, embittered; soon he would be dead. In The Horn, way-out Novelist John Clellon Holmes tries to suggest the forces that destroyed Edgar Pool. He does not succeed, but in failing he has still written the most interesting novel about the U.S. jazz world since Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn...
...doing, the Generalissimo also gave a strong hint of his future plans. If General Chen does the usual efficient job the Gimo expects from him, he may well succeed to the presidency in 1960. At that time the Gimo, who is 70, will complete his second six-year term, and Taipei is betting that he will not ask to have the constitution changed to permit a third. Instead, he is expected to turn over the presidency to Chen, and continue to have a hand in things by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...