Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said. "Without the Government, the people are a myth invented by you and Tom Paine as a basis for your foolish notions of an agrarian democracy. The myth became horrifying reality in Paris in 1789. You approved that Revolution, Tom, and I guess you must have approved its ideological successor in Russia...
Being the front yard of American power, the park has seen a lot of casual history. Thomas Jefferson walked over to the Madison house on one occasion to pay a call on his successor. Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward, was gravely wounded in his house on the square the night that Lincoln was shot...
...dominated by vertically integrated firms because the action against Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. in 1911 did not go far enough. Instead of carving the empire into its functional parts-production, refining and marketing-Roberts says, "the Government split it along geographical lines, thus making every successor company vertically integrated." In fact, five of the charged firms -Exxon, Standard of Indiana, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield and Standard of California-were created by the breakup of Rockefeller's trust...
...next month's national convention, S.C.L.C. must name Abernathy's successor, and already a logical choice looms: Coretta Scott King...
...they predicted, controversy world wide--and particularly in this country--is dying with the Vietnam war. Lenin's successor whispers friendly greetings in Nixon's ear, and announces solemnly that anyone who does not believe in the eternal coexistence of incompatible economic systems is insane. Kissinger goes back to Peking. The Democrats let the Republicans stew in their own juice. The Jefferson Airplane break up; the Carpenters pack the halls. Bobby Seale puts on suit and tie and runs for Mayor of Oakland. At least half of New York City's Democratic Party coalesces around its official candidate for mayor...