Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...
This much can be said. He gave Harvard football players a reason for winning--not for the name of Harvard (that had been tried by his predecessor), not for personal glory (he didn't expect to win enough games to make anyone an All-American), but for their coach, Art Valpey
When McCabe received the call to Cambridge in August, he was confronted with a problem radically different from that facing his almost legendary predecessor, "Chief" Boston. While the Harlow system instituted the J. V. as a nearly independent team with a head coach and two aids, Valpey called for jayvees to act part of the time as guinea pigs for the varsity...
...before him is an exacting one, hedged about by ancient laws and customs. The strict confinement* and almost continual presence of numerous church officials and advisers cost Athenagoras' predecessor his reason. A few months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans...
Munro inherited eleven letter-winners from his predecessor, wee Scot James MacDonald, and has used, with a few modifications, the short pass, English style of play that MacDonald taught. But according to the small coterie of old-time Boston soccer enthusiasts who are the only regular rooters for the team, the Crimson has improved considerably over the past two years. Under Munro, it plays a more coordinated control game than last year, when it won seven and lost...