Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to make a throw to second to get Geronimo, he ran into Armbrister. As a result, Fisk's throw went over shortstop Rick Burleson's head and into centerfield. A heated argument between Sox manager Darrell Johnson and home plate umpire Barnett ensued, but the appeal did not succeed...
Your article "How to Succeed, 1975" [Sept. 15], with its reference to The Prince by Matchabelli, lends a fragrance to politics that is long overdue...
...same conclusion, reached after every post-assassination national self-analysis, is as valid?and unsatisfying?as ever; there is no way to be certain that some frustrated eccentric, determined enough or lucky enough, cannot succeed in his intent to kill. But the acts of Squeaky Fromme and Sally Moore serve as a painful reminder that reasonable steps should be taken to reduce the danger...
Scarf does not look like someone who has had to struggle through the journalist's world. Although 43, she looks a decade younger. The aggressiveness one would imagine she needed to succeed as a writer seems not to have affected Scarf personally. The impression one gets when meeting her is that she has successfully retained her warmth and a sense of humor. Perhaps the best way to contrast her to other journalists is the contrast she herself saw at the first few Nieman fellow conferences. The other fellows continually shot questions to the speakers; they asked "tough questions and even...
Scarf's most recent research--on depression in women--grew out of her curiosity over why people--both men and women--commit suicide. A large percentage of women who attempt suicide are between 18 and 30, but most of them do not succeed. A large proportion of men who attempt suicide are in their early 50's and late 60's, and they do succeed. "Women take pills and ingest things. Men use guns and more violent means," Scarf says. "I'm interested in the active versus the passive aspects." She wrote articles on all these aspects of suicide...