Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have found that there's at least one bright side to this energy mess: the high you experience when at last you succeed in refueling your car. It is like the caveman who knocks over a marauding dinosaur with one blow of his club: you feel as though you could lick the world−momentarily, at least...
Civiletti is also known as a man with neither political ambition nor a political following−and his loyalty to both Jimmy Carter and Griffin Bell, the man he will succeed, is unquestioned. Although the Civiletti appointment signals no shake-up at Justice, it may mean that criminal prosecutions will move more swiftly than under the easygoing Bell. Said Civiletti last week: "There is nothing more harmful to justice or the perception of justice than delay, red tape, unpreparedness." Civiletti is seeking ways to form task forces from the various divisions of the department (such as criminal, tax and antitrust...
...Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conductor, Angel). Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite, 1919 version (Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conductor, Angel). Now that Muti has been appointed to succeed Eugene Ormandy in 1980, listeners will turn to these, his first discs with the orchestra, to see what kind of new leader the Philadelphia has. They will find few conclusive answers. These are unexceptionable performances, clean and firm-if anything, too firm in the emphatic attack in the Beethoven and the clipped chords of the Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. What is missing...
According to law enforcement officials, the murder was the latest round in a gangland struggle to succeed Carlo Gambino, who died in 1976, as the top boss of New York's five Mafia families...