Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary-General who comes after me," Dag Hammarskjold once said, "will be one of the Afro-Asians." Last week, nearly two months after Hammarskjold's death, the U.N. fulfilled his prophecy. Picked to succeed Dag, after weeks of haggling between Russia and the U.S., was Burma's permanent U.N. delegate, U Thant (rhymes with Du Pont).* His selection came after Russia finally backed away from its insistence on a troika leadership and compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of assistant secretaries. The U S wanted five, one each from the U.S., Russia, Latin America, Africa...
...imports at a time when exports are declining. The Administration hopes to reverse this trend by spurring an energetic export drive. Last week some 2,000 businessmen who gathered in Manhattan for the annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council expressed confidence that the export drive would succeed...
...confidence by letting the girls run their own multilingual course in world poetry ("It was a dandy"). She started part-time studies for married women, and made it a great success-while she herself did radiation research on serratia for the Atomic Energy Commission. When Radcliffe asked her to succeed retiring President Wilbur K. Jordan in 1959, she had doubts. Radcliffe seemed to be "cooking along," and her own campus needed help. But she saw a bigger problem: the low motivation of U.S. college girls in general. Radcliffe, "kind of a prestige spot," seemed the best platform in the country...
Madison fought the war mainly to stop British harassing of U.S. shipping. British men-of-war were keeping U.S. ships out of European ports and halting them on the high seas to impress U.S. sailors into the British navy. Madison never did succeed in rallying the nation behind the war. Merchants traded with the enemy throughout the war. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts were so opposed to "Mr. Madison's War" that there was open talk of secession. Madison had no control over Congress, tolerated incompetent subordinates in his Cabinet. A whispering campaign was launched suggesting that...
...musical, How to Succeed is a model of the temptations it resists, and under Robert Morse's comic power drive, it is practically irresistible...