Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aloians will succeed Charles Dunn, Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature, and his wife Elaine, co-Masters since 1966. Dunn, the oldest of the Masters, will continue to teach in the Celtic department. He is retiring from his duties as Master to pursue writing...
WHEN PRESIDENT BOK finally announced last week that professor James Vorenberg will succeed Albert M. Sacks as dean of the Law School, many students did not know how to react...
...demands by Labor leftists for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Look, it's my total objective to stop [Labor Party Leader] Michael Foot or anyone who shares that kind of view from ever getting in power. And I believe I'll succeed. I believe that this country knows that it must defend itself by all possible means. If we weren't prepared to, it would be an enormous victory for a potential enemy, without his ever having fired a shot. Whenever freedom was in doubt, we were prepared to stand and fight. If ever we weren't, there...
DIED. Ella Grasso, 61, effective Connecticut politician, first woman to govern a state who did not succeed her husband; of cancer; in Hartford (see NATION...
...Company of Women has the same strengths and weaknesses as Final Payments. Both novels succeed on the durability and intelligence of central characters who command respect. Both novels have a tendency to slip into lugubriousness and slick schematism. Felicitas' college days contain too much stock footage from the dopey '60s, and though Cyprian's followers illustrate the spiritual dependency of women in a male-dominated church, they remain only illustrations - sketches of romanticized stoicism...