Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rejection if the Administration forced the issue. Better wait, Carter figured, until outrage over the Afghanistan invasion has died down-and until the Executive Branch is in a stronger position to press for ratification. That might mean after the November elections, when either a re-elected Carter or his successor would probably enjoy a honeymoon with a new Congress...
Smith started with the belief that true Christianity, corrupted for 18 centuries, would be restored by his "Latter Day Saints." The most substantial result is a 4.3 million-member church based in Salt Lake City, created by Smith's successor Brigham Young and famed both for prosperity and for two practices that it eventually discarded: polygamy and a ban on blacks in church offices...
...small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...
...reviews, it's easy to think that Vendler smiles every time a new book of poems arrives at her doorstep. This excitement fills Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, and is virtually unparalleled in the field. One critic has gone so far as to call her "the legitimate successor to R.P. Blackmur and Randall Jarrell...
...after the death of Ho Chi Minn in 1969 and the only man to serve as President since the country's 1976 reunification with South Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Hanoi. The choice of the southern-born "Uncle Ton," a longtime Communist Party faithful, as successor to the legendary Ho was a compromise designed to forestall a power struggle between more influential leaders in the party. While Ton's presidency was largely ceremonial in character, the power of the office is now likely to be expanded...