Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trujillo. But others in the middle echelons are increasingly worried about what happens to them if the old man goes, now are said to listen thoughtfully to anti-Trujillo talk. Helping their speculations along are two opposition hopes. One is that an attempt to assassinate the tyrant will succeed. In the past year, two attempts have been made: two months ago an escort car in his motorcade through the countryside was shot up and a bodyguard wounded; earlier, three army officers tried and failed to plant a bomb in his car. The other opposition hope is that stronger sanctions...
...warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather. Few of the outcasts succeed in raising young to maturity...
...affair has since widened and proliferated to include arguments about Israel's future economic state, government decentralization and the role of Histadrut, the nation's powerful labor federation, which is now led by Lavon. Most importantly, it involves the question of who is eventually to succeed 74-year-old Ben-Gurion as Prime Minister. Lavon, who is only 56, plainly considers himself available...
...membership, will help to make the U.N. too cumbersome for realistic action. In particular, the British (who since Suez have been less enthusiastic about the U.N.) are convinced that Khrushchev is trying to make the U.N. unworkable, and with the unintentional help of the new Africans and Asians, may succeed. British thinking now leans to a search for a new instrument through which the West's powers could act in concert to protect the interests of the free world and, looking ten and 20 years ahead, foresees the need of a much closer association between Britain, the U.S., France...
When he was appointed Archbishop of St. Louis in 1946, to succeed John Cardinal Glennon (who died on his way back to the U.S. after being made a cardinal by Pope Pius XII), St. Louisans found Indiana-born Archbishop Ritter a far different kind of man from the warm and outgoing Archbishop Glennon. Slender almost to frailty, with rimless glasses and a gentle voice. Ritter seemed unapproachable and colorless at first, but it was not long before St. Louis' 450,000 Roman Catholics knew how much more he was than an office manager...