Word: succeeding
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Further, "At Harvard there is not much external pressure on athletes to perform well. So, when you do succeed, you know you did it yourself and you have a feeling of accomplishment...
...longtime friend of Black's who had joined the board to help find a successor. Opposing Alexander was a faction backing Edward Gelsthorpe, 53, United Brands' executive vice president and chief operating officer. He ran the Boston office and was the man considered most likely to succeed Black. As United Brands' losses mounted, the two men clashed so often that Black threatened to fire Gelsthorpe...
...horrors planned by the fictional bad guys are no more grandiose than those that actually do occur. Yet some how, one of Ambler's losers, worrying about how to get through a grubby border station and about the things that will happen to him if he does not succeed, generates more uneasiness in the reader than any of the new terrorist melodramas. Is the problem that guerrilla theater is bad art, too charged with bombast to seem real, even when real people are dying? Like Western heads of state, thriller writers do not seem to know what to make...
Because these groups failed in their attempt to challenge the crown, the absolutist government in Russia remained absolute. Pipes thinks the peasants had the potential strength to succeed where the others had failed but that they lost the chance because they were politically unaware. Pipes is angry with the "stupid" peasant because he was too lazy to organize as a class to challenge the serfdom that was oppressing him. For this reason, the peasant was "ill-suited for any political system except an authoritarian or anarchistic one," and he let the opportunities of the intelligentsiarun revolution pass...
Besserman said yesterday he plans to serve as senior tutor "for as long as I find the job congenial." He has been a nonresident tutor of Adams House since 1970 and head tutor of the English Department for a year. He said he does not know who will succeed him at the English Department post...