Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no doubt that American scientists will, in the end, succeed in launching earth satellites...
...President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel...
...that the "vast majority of American people will not agree that Goa is part of Portugal. India should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...
...with the Air Force, although he was Air Force Secretary before becoming Wilson's assistant. Air Force corridor gossip accuses Quarles of accepting Air Force budget cuts too complaisantly, of refusing to be "tarred with the Air Force brush" because he wanted to maintain the neutrality necessary to succeed Wilson as Defense Secretary: Although Quarles's friends give him high marks for his service impartiality, he is in danger of reaping the whirlwind of Charlie Wilson's mistakes. New Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy leans on him less and less...
...unless social science can offer us a form which will give these multiple minor insights a cumulative effect. Without such a form, each insight will be returned to the society from which it sprang, without affecting that society or making possible a more significant future insight. Eventually we may succeed in making the complexity of written material identical with the complexity of experience, in which case we may as well burn all our libraries and start over again, since ideas will have ceased to simplify experience...