Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect capping the seeps might have on the ecological balance. Nor does anyone understand fully what causes the seeps, although in some places like Santa Barbara they seem to have been created when earthquakes fractured the sea floor, letting trapped oil and gas escape. If ARCO's pyramids succeed in capturing these fugitive riches, other oil companies may also initiate trapping projects...
...year-old leader has reportedly been seriously ill for several years, and Communist Party officials are apparently now debating over who should succeed...
Most suicide attempts are, in fact, not so much attempts to die as last-ditch cries for help. French psychiatrist and suicide specialist Jean Pierre Soubrier estimates that nine out of 10 people trying to commit suicide don't really want to succeed. The prevalence of "suicidal fantasies" which never come to completion is also common knowledge. Both syndromes, of course, could be radically and tragically altered by access to 50 painless "cocktails" guaranteeing a gentle death...
...sadnesses was that many Mississippians believed the assurances of their leaders that defiance could succeed. A close friend of impeccable Mississippi lineage (his great-grandfather was wounded in the charge at Gettysburg) was captain of a National Guard unit that was federalized. The other day we were standing on the back porch of my bungalow on the fringes of the campus. He gazed out toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most...
...first in which whites and blacks attended all twelve grades together. After all of its pain, and the difficulty to come, this could be, in truth, the only society in America where "the great plan," as the rest of the nation has intermittently conceived of it, could some day succeed...