Word: succeeding
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...semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno family began with an ambush in January 1966 outside the home of Joe's uncle in Brooklyn, and mob-style executions have accounted for at least seven since then. During the past four months, Tucson has echoed to the blasts of eight bombings...
...Party does succeed in getting the necessary number of signatures, the law will go to the Cambridge City Council for approval. "If they don't pass it--and they probably won't because they kowtow to the real estate interests--it goes before the city in a special election," Stoia said...
...photographs in Light make no statements. They present situations into which the viewer must insert himself. In order for the photographs to succeed, the viewer has to work with them. He must allow himself to move into the world in the photographs, a world where his dream-memories and visions become the realities...
...succeed Ball, the President immediately named Washington Post Editor James Russell Wiggins, 64, thus rewarding a loyal supporter and astounding even those Lyndon watchers inured to his most bizarre moves. A widely known journalist, Wiggins has no legal or diplomatic experience. When he was tapped, he was preparing to retire from the Post (see PRESS) to his 80-acre Maine farm and a weekly newspaper. Wiggins came to Washington in 1933 as correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post...
Former Common Market Chief Wal ter Hallstein mused aloud on whether the Soviets might not succeed in reducing West Germany to the status of a second Finland-fearful, quiescent and accommodating. Seeking to avoid any words that might provoke the Russians, Kiesinger repeatedly edited and rewrote his Bundestag speech. As he explained to his associates: "We must not hold a lighted match under the tail of an already enraged bear...