Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show that sustains interest unflaggingly throughout its running-time of two-and-a-half hours. The greatcritic James Agate once wrote of Julius Caesar: "The play's second half is one long anti-climax. Shakespeare left his play in two halves which no company of actors, however skillful can succeed in putting together." Were he alive and here, I think Agate would change his mind...
...planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down the air cover. Not even highly skeptical military chiefs, secretly relieved to let the CIA run the project, had the nerve to inform Kennedy that the operation had grown too large to hide its origins, yet remained too limited to succeed. Looking back, one CIA official told Wyden, somebody "should have said, 'Mr. President, this is going to create one hell of a lot of noise...
...Once they flush out the zombies and barricade the entrances, they have all the stores to themselves--think of it! They set up house with the finest stereo equipment, unlimited gourmet foods and wine, chic, expensive clothing, sporting goods, etc. By surrounding themselves with material luxuries, they almost succeed in forgetting the hordes of zombies that surround the mall, clamoring at the entrances, waiting...waiting...It's an ingenious metaphor for our society's material-assisted repression of certain realities--poverty, social injustice, or more down to earth, our crippling over-dependence on oil, which we were made aware...
...normalization of relations with China. The Kremlin had come to view Carter as anti-Soviet; worse, Brezhnev seemed to regard him as weak and confused. Conversely, Washington could not be sure of Brezhnev: how his physical condition was affecting his abilities, how long he would rule, or who might succeed...
...working toward them in his native land, the Pope must consider who will succeed Cardinal Wyszynski, who is now 77 and reported to be in precarious health. Two new Polish Cardinals are among those presumed to be candidates for Primate...