Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THERE are a dozen Americans better fitted by training, temperament and character than Vice President Nixon to succeed the President. But it is better to have a physically fit, vigorous Nixon, skilled in politics, assuming full responsibility, than an ailing Eisenhower who is forced to delegate authority...
Nowhere does an expansiveness of spirit succeed better than in the realm of sculpture, to wit that of George Kolbe and especially of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The latter transforms his message to drawing with the same permanence and surety he exhibits in stone, and in expressionism or any other art, permanence is what ultimately counts...
Speaking on problems of international space law and on control of space last night, the Prince of Hanover stated that "we of the western world must, at all costs, succeed in maintaining our scientific supremacy so that our way of life will not perish...
...U.S.S.R.'s scientific triumph with Sputniks I and II, is a bold and daring line indeed, and the spearhead of what may well be modern diplomacy's most brazen propaganda gambit. For if the Communists, whose missilery is a threat of the near future, should succeed by big talk in persuading U.S. allies, and the U.S. itself, that the day of the bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here and now is the free world's only...
Progoff quotes Freud as admitting that "certain practices of mystics may succeed in upsetting the normal relations between the different regions of the mind," so that the senses are "able to grasp relations in the deeper layers of the ego and the id." In his own analysis, Progoff regards the process described in The Cloud of Unknowing as a drawing back of all "attachments or projections, whether they are valid or false," which leads to "a deliberate attrition of consciousness." In turn, this results in a greatly increased activity of the unconscious. At this point the individual begins...