Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will find their names not on the rosters of the Chambers of Commerce, but on the local relief rolls and the unemployment lists. Regardless of the motives behind them, should the rides succeed in focusing attention on the Northern race problem, the Citizens Councils will rank with no less than CORE as helpers in the fight for freedom. John G. Butler...
...said he'd been thinking about a tractor and said he thought he could get one in a trade for a barn of oats we had. I told him to go ahead and try. He went off and came back with a tractor." How to Succeed. Billie Sol started out in farming, and he prospered at it. By the time he was 28 he was doing so well as a cotton farmer that the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the U.S.'s ten outstanding young men of 1953. Billie Sol traveled to Seattle...
...their service by Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, and sailed away on a long honeymoon. But when the honeymoon is over, what will the prince do? More than any event in years, the royal wedding revived speculation about the future of the Spanish monarchy - and about the man who will succeed Francisco Franco...
...subject matter alone: William Randolph Hearst was hardly noted for teaching "patriotic and unselfish services to the people." But if such literal considerations guided the trustees, they stood on shaky ground. They had, after all, endorsed the board's decision to bestow the drama prize on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a Broadway musical that for all its merits as a polished farce hardly meets Joseph Pulitzer's injunction to "represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage...
...Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; fiction: Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness; nonfiction: Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960; history: Lawrence Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan...