Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebuttal, the A.B.A.'s incoming president, Whitney North Seymour, 59, of New York, argued that the court's decisions during its 14-year history have shown it to be learned and impartial. The A.B.A.'s new President-elect John C. Satterfield of Mississippi, 56, who will succeed Seymour in one year, contended that "if we retain the Connally Amendment, every day, every week, every year, we will be telling the world that we will not submit to the jurisdiction of the World Court and international...
...California's 21st District seat, a sprawling area that embraces half of Los Angeles and several bedroom valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against the most publicized name in Oregon politics...
...Ebenezer, the appointment is a chance to "leap astride life"; it actually amounts to an invitation to disaster: a group of insurrectionists mistake Ebenezer for a secret agent of Baltimore's and all but succeed in a plot to murder him. Enroute to America he loses his commission, falls into the hands of pirates and is forced to walk the plank. Miraculously, he makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs...
...have spent much of my life abroad, and I am convinced that the anti-Communist peoples of Asia and Europe will pray for the Nixon-Lodge-team's victory, as being by far the more vigorous and experienced of the two contestants, and the one more likely to succeed in giving a hemorrhage to Moscow and Peking...
...realize, of course, that you may Well succeed in winning the election for Kennedy, but I would like you to know that the game is understood...