Word: predecessor
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Peterkin took office in the wake of a bitter political battle that resulted in the firing of his predecessor, William Lannon, and School Committee members said he has unified the normally polarized board. Like the City Council, the School Committee has long been a battleground between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents...
...times. In 1968 the nation was hopelessly fractious. Besieged by opposition to a war not wanted and not understood, Lyndon Johnson was more a prisoner than a President, hostage to his Texas-macho aversion to becoming the "first American President to lose a war." The brother of his martyred predecessor, whose policies had mired the nation in the mess in the first place, wanted Johnson's job and an end to the war. So did Clean Gene McCarthy, who had demonstrated in New Hampshire that L.B.J. could be had. Bobby Kennedy at last agreed that Johnson might be unseated...
...little detail of masts and sails in Manet's Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor, 1869, is blown up to an 8-ft. square in Sultan's Harbor July 6, 1984. But there is, to put it mildly, a wee gap on the scale of talent between Sultan and his lucky predecessor...
Before he took office in February, South Korean President Roh Tae Woo pledged to leave no "sanctuary" for wrongdoers in the government of his predecessor and mentor, Chun Doo Hwan. Roh is proving true to his word. Last week Chun's younger brother, Chun Kyung Hwan, 45, was arrested for tax evasion, influence peddling, and embezzling at least $8.7 million from the semiofficial Saemaul Undong movement, a national development organization he headed for seven years...
Sarah's real rebellion is her rejection of two centuries of American, and specifically of WASP, tradition, heritage and religion. Her predecessor, Hester Prynne, violates propriety by having a child out of wedlock with a priest. But sex out of marriage is not a taboo in Sarah's world. Her betrayal of society comes from aligning herself with the Other, defecting to Eastern thought and to the Occidental religions that a xenophobic society is apt to consider loony and dangerous...