Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first work that Director Bond undertook, which was continued by his son and successor, Professor George P. Bond was an extensive series of zone observations, elaborate drawings of the planet Saturn, and work on the comet of 1858, and on the nebula in Orion. He and his son also worked to determine terrestrial longitudes for the United States Coast Survey. Cambridge is still recognized as the "Birthplace of American Longitudes...
Receptive? While Truman said nothing publicly about a successor, many believed his choice was Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson. There was no doubt that most Fair Deal officeholders looked on him as the heir presumptive. Stevenson still insisted that he is running only for re-election in Illinois, but he immediately began talking like a man establishing his availability for a draft. In a television interview, he was asked whether he would say that he will not accept the nomination. His reply: "I will not say that...
...human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity, e.g., "Remembrance occurs when, at all the synapses in a given network 'y,' the permanently echoing frequencies are duplicated as transient circulating frequencies...
...present, the majority of Councillors do not wish to get rid of Atkinson entirely. He is a good administrator, and they realize it. And if Atkinson were fired the Council would have to find a competent successor, a difficult task at best...
When the Allies allowed Bonn to have foreign affairs, Professor Hallstein, dressed in a worn tweed jacket and odd slacks, became the postwar successor to arrogant Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was no pro, but that fact was reassuring to Germany's unforgiving neighbors. To ease French fears that Germany might dominate the Schuman Plan, he quietly pointed out that the Ruhr will contribute more than half of the coal and one-third of the steel, but will have only two members on the nine-man high authority...