Word: succeeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Porter became the target of this feeling because, with the prior approval of the State Department, he had spoken a few truths about tensions in Canadian-U.S. relations. At about the same time the White House was announcing the nomination of Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders to succeed him, Porter threw a small cocktail party for a dozen Canadian and American reporters. At the party, he observed that Congressmen in U.S. Border states were unhappy about the price of imported Canadian oil. At $14.99 a bbl., Canadian crude is running nearly $1.50 above average world market prices. Porter...
...regular-season games and carried the ball for nearly three miles in his Ohio State career. Last week he became the only player ever to win the Heisman Trophy twice. Despite those credentials, Griffin may not be first to go. According to pro scouts, the man most likely to succeed in an N.F.L. backfield is Chuck Muncie, a harddriving, shifty tailback from the University of California at Berkeley (see box). Rated not far behind Muncie and Griffin is Oklahoma's quicksilver running back Joe Washington. "There's no question about it," says one scout. "This is the year...
...charmed circle." After the second World War, the arts in New York took on a vitality and strength which Cunningham and his followers helped to create. And it is with this realization that a few of the fifteen delve into the complexities of the man and the myth, and succeed in cutting sharp reliefs of Cunningham. Others offer only a few sentences and warm sentiments...
Many of these pieces--especially Carpeaux's "Lion Crushing a Serpent" and Rodin's "Man With a Broken Nose"--succeed in all their versions because the original forms built by the artist are still so strong. Others, like Daniel Chester French's (the man who sculpted John Harvard) oversentimentalized "Memory," have little artistic merit either in their original or successive states...
...editors--L.H. Butterfield, who edited John Adams's diary and autobiography, Marc Friedlander and Mary-Jo Kline--make it clear from the outset that they want a book that will be read and not studied. They succeed. They select what they consider to be the best of the Adams correspondence and add letters to outsiders, diary entries and autobiographical selections. The result is a smooth reading narrative that carries the reader from the first faint glimmerings of trouble with England into the frantic months of Independence and beyond...