Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his wife had asthma, he applied to the department for an air conditioner. Although 99% of the city's relief recipients do not have air conditioning, officials decided that the request fitted a vague legal definition of "medically approved special needs" and approved it. Nothing succeeds like success so Davis then persuaded doctors to prescribe "special therapeutic experiences," for which the kindly welfare officials agreed to provide extra stipends; Davis spent the money on golf lessons and greens fees for himself and his wife. Emboldened, he then pleaded for money to 1) let his wife vacation...
...first edition of Fielding's Guide came off the presses in 1948. It was an instant success. The Danish government ran a survey and was amazed to discover that between one-third and one-half of all Americans who visited between 1948 and 1950 had come at Fielding's recommendation. Nancy and Temple moved from New York to Denmark in 1951, and four months later settled in Formentor, where they built up their remarkable establishment...
...been a steady climb to this peak for John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...
...Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn't make sense," Douglass strove for a quarter-century to unite factionalized Protestantism. His most visible success came in 1957, with the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reform Church...
Tension of Too Much Success...