Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that their unions joined to form the A.F.L.-C.I.O. eleven years ago. Meany, 72, the federation's president, has won the important points, and Reuther, 59, the top vice president, has usually knuckled under - partly in hopes of winning the older man's support to succeed...
...hassles and confusions are over, the new governor will take office with questionable authority and prestige. Sanders, on the other hand, will leave the governorship with his reputation at a personal high. He has come to represent a figure of unity amid the turmoil. A governor in Georgia cannot succeed himself, but Sanders has promised to stay in office until the election is decided...
...experts could only guess at which parties would ultimately succeed in forming a new government. Some clues could be expected in how well the three parties fared in this week's Bavarian state elections. Whatever the final outcome, it seemed likely that West Germany's next government would rudely revise most of Bonn's most holy foreign policy tenets. For years, Bonn has stood unbendingly for no official contact with East Germany, no diplomatic relations with any country that recognized East Germany, no detente with the Soviet bloc, until after Germany achieved reunification. As a price...
...Helen became an "attempt" instead of a coroner's statistic. Did she really want to die, or was she just making a gesture? Helen does not know now, and her ambivalence is typical; experts on suicide believe that most acts aimed at self-destruction, whether or not they succeed, are really attempts to reach out for others -ill and awful ways of crying, "Help...
...marital situation and occupation are all significant factors in proneness to suicide. One is most likely to try it and fail before 35 and to succeed after 50. In most of the U.S. and the Western world, more women than men make suicide attempts, but nearly four times as many men actually kill themselves. Single people are far more likely to kill themselves than the married-but who can say if they do it because they are unmarried or are unmarried because they are depressive people who are inclined to kill themselves? Divorced males seem to have a hard time...