Word: succeeding
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Martin Luther was the lightning of the Protestant Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master often conveyed with rhetoric. Calvin's lifelong opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion, as he boasts in this vigorous biographical novel, grew to be as long as ''the Old Testament plus a good part...
...When the structure of the chain is fully determined, which it probably will be before the end of 1980, chemists will try to re-create IF in the laboratory. That promises to be a difficult task: so long a chain tends to break apart in synthesis. But if they succeed, pharmaceutical companies may some day be able to mass-produce this and other types of interferon using only off-the-shelf chemicals...
Even the atmosphere of our first integration committee meeting was bloody good. Right then I thought, hell, there are going to be some terrific difficulties, but if the people here say we're going to overcome them and make it work, then we will succeed...
...Israelis also did little to help the peace process with the selection of their new Foreign Minister to succeed Moshe Dayan, who resigned in October. The choice: Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government...
...instance, why is Jack rewarded rather than punished for taking objects from the giant? (A possible answer: Jack paid with his mother's cow for the beans that grew into the giant's beanstalk. Possible comeback: But he didn't pay the giant.) Does Jack succeed because of magic, good luck or his own efforts? (The story includes some evidence of all three.) The students also mull over different characterizations of Jack and the giant in two different versions of the story...