Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them in a wholesome atmosphere. . . . We've carried them through the critical years of uncertainty. . . . We're a sort of clearing house midway between the world and the Church. . . . And . . . our rallies are held on Saturday night, the one night the wiseacres said we couldn't succeed...
...less and less effort; if labor organizations or industrial organizations are to take purely selfish positions that block the road to production and distribution; or if political leaders are unwilling to face a reduction in Government expenditures and are to assume that a policy of deficit financing can succeed any better in the future than it did in the decade 1930-40. The result of these can be nothing but the debasement of our currency and a lowering of the standard of living in the United States...
...succeed Beria, Stalin chose Colonel General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...Nominated Rear Admiral Earle W. Mills, 49, assistant chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships, to succeed retiring Vice Admiral Emory S. Land as chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission...
...making of a working reality out of an ideal is very difficult. ... It is for us today, bearing in mind the great sacrifices that have been made, to prove ourselves no less courageous in approaching our great task, no less patient, no less self-sacrificing. We must and will succeed...