Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people called him "the show boy, our leader, the man of destiny," and the British saw in Kwame Nkrumah, educated at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, the man most likely to succeed in turning his newly independent Gold Coast nation of six main tribes, three religions and 65 dialects into a smoothly running parliamentary democracy. In the 15 months since Ghana won its freedom, Prime Minister Nkrumah has brought his people stability, but in the process liberty has received a few side blows...
...awesome array of problems that bedevil France-rebellion in Algeria, strained relations with Tunisia, impending economic catastrophe, an unworkable system of government. In a burst of eloquence, he concluded: " 'Is not all this too much for us?' murmur those who. because they believe nothing can succeed, end up by wanting nothing to succeed . . . No, it is not too much for France, for this marvelous country that despite its past trials and the disorder of its affairs has in hand all the elements of an extraordinary renewal . . . The road is hard, but it is beautiful. The goal is difficult...
...Emperor? The beautiful road that De Gaulle was mapping out might yet prove to be one that Frenchmen are too divided or too self-indulgent to follow. Perhaps, in the end, the politicians would be justified in their belief that the crucial question was not whether De Gaulle would succeed but who would succeed...
...villa above the town, he is working on a new opera scheduled for production at Brussels which he hopes will give him the cash to "pay my personal bills." But his real concern is that the festival will succeed enough to be repeated. If that happens, Spoleto will become what he intended it to be: a kind of artistic Shangri-La, where young U.S. and European artists can retire every year to talk shop and "express themselves freely, unhampered by political creeds or esthetic fashions...
More royalty is chosen later in the year at the kings-and-queens dance. Not satisfied with selecting the boy and girl most-likely-to-succeed, the senior class also elects kings and queens of eyes, voice, hair, laugh, figure and physique, sophistication and dashing, personality, popularity, and a few others. There is even a queen of clothes--usually the girl with the largest wardrobe of cashmere sweaters...