Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hyperbolic standards. "The most efficient man I've ever known," the President once said. "As wise as my father, as gentle as my mother, as loyal to my side as Lady Bird," he observed on another occasion. And last week, in announcing Watson's nomination to succeed Lawrence O'Brien as Postmaster General, Johnson said that "it will take at least two good men" to replace him at the White House...
...that the names of all callers would be noted. Once, following up a chance remark of the President's, he ordered a wall built between the Executive Office Building and the White House to block the vision of nosy reporters. That project was canceled, but Watson did succeed in barring reporters from the low-cost Executive Office Building cafeteria and in restricting their access to E.O.B. officials...
...conference by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is a decision by the U.S. to turn the war gradually over to the South Vietnamese and to give them the firepower and backing to wage it effectively. The new man in Viet Nam is General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 53, who will succeed General William C. West moreland, soon to return to Washington as Army Chief of Staff...
...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
Like so many rock troubadours, S. & G. see pain in the affluent society-in alienation, lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays...