Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Federal Judge Learned Hand, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, "I despise a Judge who feels God told him to impose a death sentence," and added, "I am mean enough to try to stay here long enough so that K will be too old to succeed me." Frankfurter then lobbied to delay Kaufman's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals...
...them succeed, but Dubus never condescends to their often inarticulate yearnings. In The Pretty Girl, for instance, there is clearly something terribly wrong with Ray Yarborough. He rapes his ex-wife Polly at knife point and severely beats the man she had slept with during the bad last days of the marriage. Dubus gives Yarborough his say, allows him, in fact, to tell much of his own story: "They would call it rape and assault with a deadly weapon, but those words don't apply to me and Polly. I was taking back my wife for a while...
...modest aid requests that the Administration has made, Congress runs a risk of pushing American policy into the trap warned against by Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter. Said Brzezinski, of foreign ventures generally: "We are forever in danger of getting just enough involved not to succeed, yet still to be responsible for failing." Unhappily, the Administration's bungling and Congress's rebuff last week have made that risk in Central America all the greater...
...after Reynolds died, NBC News President Reuven Frank demoted Mudd in a confrontation that Frank described as "painful but not acrimonious." Mudd was lured from CBS in 1980, after losing to Rather in the competition to succeed Cronkite, with the promise that he would become NBC'S sole anchor if John Chancellor stepped down. Later Mudd agreed to share the job to help NBC keep Brokaw. For his pains, Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said...
...controls are in prospect, but the length and strength of the current expansion will depend upon how well the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve Board contain prices. If they succeed, the recovery could be a long waltz instead of a brief flashdance...