Word: succeeding
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...predicted that Congress would open "without suspense or a ringing challenge by President Kennedy," and the New York Times warned that "the President must ask himself how much he dares dilute his program in order to get what is left of it approved. The question is dangerous: he could succeed as a politician and fail as a statesman." Last week the Times was disappointed. "This was not a fighting speech," it said...
...splendid and clean manner in which you conducted your campaign. It was a source of sincere regret that I had to have you as my opponent." Two years passed, and Jim Gallivan did indeed drop dead. Nine Democrats, including John McCormack, filed for the party's nomination to succeed Gallivan. The Irish masters of Boston-including Kingmaker James Michael Curley and Martin Lomasney, boss of the Eighth Ward-recalled McCormack favorably and spread the word that he was their man. "They figured McCormack was the type who, if he got to Congress, would stay there." recalls Lawyer James Sullivan...
...attend as a movie; playgoers who merely drift up to the box office at curtain time can generally plunk down their money and walk right in. One night last week, for example, only three of Broadway's 29 shows were sold out by 5 130: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Night of the Iguana and Milk and Honey. (Since the most publicized shows are the ones that nearly all out-of-town visitors want to see. the impossible-ticket myth has spread all over the U.S.) Tickets were available not only for long-running shows...
...precedent without disaster, should another "Congo" develop. He does not see what, in fact, has been the heart of the U.N.'s problem since Hammarskjold's death. The U.N. must be willing to undertake a military operation where it is necessary and where it is likely to succeed, but be able to resist any faction (and anti-colonialism is only one of these) which tries to use such an action as a "precedent" to involve the U.N. where it is undeeded or outnumbered. The tragedy of Hammarskjold's death is that the U.N. lost a Secretary-General whose strength...
Seeing in his 86th birthday with a flute of champagne, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer received a baroque stone bench from the man perennially most likely to succeed him. Toasted Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, eliciting a faint smile and a wag of der Alte's steady old finger: "In order to forestall any bad jokes, I should say that this gift is not for use in retirement but for your relaxation...