Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sara Slack writes up some child's achievement in school, she often mentions the occupation of the child's parents: janitor, domestic, whatever. "We let the Negro child know," she says, "that he doesn't have to come from a family of doctors or lawyers to succeed in life...
...foot. His royalty checks were earmarked for furs and fine whips. For her part, Wanda was expected to chastise him regularly, and in general she promised to dishonor, disobey and degrade him. To that effect, they signed a "treaty." But the marriage went wrong. Biographer Cleugh does not succeed in explaining why, but it is fairly obvious that Frau Sacher-Masoch had no intention of keeping her vows. His entreaties notwithstanding, she refused at first to be unfaithful to him, even when he went so far as to place advertisements for cuckolders in the Vienna Tageblatt. Anguished Divorce...
...will continue to be largely American-run, national operations henceforth will be significantly de-Americanized. As part of the same shuffle that brings Andrews to Europe, Max Ueber will become Ford of Germany's first native managing director since World War II. Similarly, Leonard Crossland, a Briton, will succeed an American as general manager of British Ford. All of which should go a long way toward making Ford a truly multinational company...
...South Viet Nam can become a nation. It's a very tough proposition. We may fail. If so I hope that I, as one who has supported the policy, will be prompt to admit that we had attempted something beyond our powers. But you know, we may just succeed. And if that happens, I hope that the many thoughtful, dedicated Americans who opposed the policy will be glad to acknowledge that their country is sometimes capable of even more than we should dare to dream...
...world's top moneymen from three continents gathered in the former hotel for the bank's 37th annual meeting. They came not so much for the brief formal session (at which President Jelle Zijl-stra of The Netherlands Bank was elected B.I.S. president to succeed his retiring fellow countryman, Marius Holtrop) as for the two preceding days of frank talk behind closed doors about monetary problems. "You save two weeks of travel in Europe by coming here," explained Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, who led the U.S. contingent...