Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political neutrality, but no one could be sure how long the military would resist the idea of restoring "stability" by staging another takeover. By week's end Turkey's President, General Cemal Gursel, came to Inonu and asked him to form a new Cabinet; conceivably he might succeed, by persuading one of the small parties to join a coalition and picking, up enough defectors elsewhere to scrape up a parliamentary majority. After all, Inonu's immediate aim was not a stable government, but any government...
When the Crimson tired of this strategy, they become a little fancier. One forward would shoot the puck directly onto a Bowdoin stick; then a second would skate up to the Bear and almost invariably succeed in grabbing he disc away. Puck control was no Bowdoin strong point either...
...central difficulty in Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...
...after taking over (see U.S. BUSINESS). Still another high-caliber Johnson favorite is Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, 46, a West Virginian who worked between 1957 and 1960 as special counsel for up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance is the odds-on choice to succeed Manhattan Lawyer Roswell Gilpatric as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Likely to follow Vance as Army Secretary is Assistant Navy Secretary Kenneth BeLieu, 49, a former staff director for that same subcommittee...
...Kennedy was "very well-liked and admired" Another friend said Kennedy exuded "an aura of leadership even in personal affairs. If you were on his side, you were really in and that was tremendous. If you were not, he would woo you if he wanted you and could usually succeed in getting his way. If he didn't want you, he would cast you in outer darkness...