Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marshals largely attributed their success to knowing many people, citing activities such as Hasty Pudding, football, and even courses as ways they met the voters...
Therein lies another of the attractions of skiing. As with any individual sport, success breeds a satisfying feeling of individual accomplishment. Most winter sports are team-oriented. Even Bobby Orr has to rely on his fellow Black Hawks in order to be successful. Unlike team sports, too, the goal for most skiers is not to win, although the Downhill Racer mystique does pervade the sport; especially among younger skiers. There's generally no one to beat except yourself. After about five lessons I taught myself to ski, and while I am far from great (knees generally too far apart...
...November 1967 Vance achieved his greatest success-helping avert a war between Greece and Turkey over the disputed island of Cyprus. In 1968 he plunged into an equally arduous but less rewarding mission: serving as Ambassador Averell Harriman's deputy during the lengthy and unsuccessful Paris negotiations to settle the Viet Nam War. Although Vance had been an early supporter of the war, he gradually began urging that the U.S. agree to an eventual withdrawal of its troops as one condition of a ceasefire. Later he criticized Richard Nixon for taking too hard a line with the North Vietnamese...
Suave and witty as ever, Kissinger had just gracefully proposed a toast to "the health and success of President-elect José LÓpez Portillo." The guests at the elegant reception given by the Secretary and his wife Nancy in Mexico City last week raised their glasses, then waited expectantly to see how the trim, attractive woman in the turquoise evening gown would handle herself. Taking the microphone, Rosalynn Carter began to speak-and the assembly and the evening were hers...
...concerned colleague and friend Dr. Watson decides Holmes must be cured of his addiction. Using Moriarty as bait, he lures Holmes to the house of a Viennese doctor who has become notable through his success in curing patients of drug addiction. There, Sherlock Holmes and his historical contemporary Sigmund Freud, the world's two greatest investigative minds, join forces to unravel a mystery. While undergoing treatment for his addiction, Holmes pursues the case of Freud's beautiful ex-patient Lola Devereaux (who has been abducted). Freud, meanwhile, seeks to explain the enigma of Sherlock Holmes himself...