Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial success of Mount Auburn 47 testifies to the popularity of the Steve Kuhn trio. Kuhn, an Adams House junior, is one of the outstanding young progressive jazz pianists in the Boston area. He is replaced on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights by classical guitarist Rudi Vannelli...
Neither of the girls had any previous business experience. "Our friends told us we were complete fools to try," Paula said. "It was difficult at first to convince solid, middle-class Americans that a new artistic endeavor could also be a financial success, but finally we got the backing we needed...
...polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...industry that almost foundered in the postwar prosperity is the U.S. fur business. In 1946 furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink...
...rawest home-brewed English. In From Here to Eternity, this concoction helped put across Novelist Jones's abrasive vision of a little-known area of U.S. life, the peacetime Regular Army. Steamy with sex, Some Came Running may hit the same one-armed bandit of bestselling success, but it is more than one-third longer (some 700,000 words in all) than king-sized Eternity-and three-thirds duller...