Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courtside and poolside were both emotionally charged. While the individual nature of swimming prompted personal responses to success and failure, the hoopsters reacted en masse. If a swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel...
...Warnke is true to his belief in unilateral restraint, the arms control impact process could be a useful device with which to assert his agency's mandate against the burgeoning demands of the Pentagon. But again, the success of his efforts will depend largely on administration support, both in the public tone it sets for arms control and in its long term plans for weapons procurement. Carter's recent advocacy of arms control will come to naught if it is not followed by decisive action in the bureaucratic battles that are sure to follow in the months and years ahead...
Hare [1951, 1963, 1975]--You are blessed with extraordinary good fortune and will inevitably attain success...
Boar [1959, 1971]--The quiet inner strength of you character is reflected by your courtesy and breeding. Your driving ambition will lead you to success...
...business manager and vice president, she knows the responsibilities that go with the job and has handled them very well," Ring said. "She also enjoys the respect and cooperation of the staff, which is very important to a president's success," he said...