Word: succeeding
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...caucus would approve them was in some doubt. Hays seemed most likely to survive, since his committee controls travel expenses for the members, and he dangled promises of more travel at an increased $45 per day. To replace Hebert, the steering group named Melvin Price of Illinois; to succeed Poage, it selected Thomas Foley of Washington. But when it meets again this week the caucus will have the right, for the first time in the procedures, to propose other choices of its own devising...
...their greatest fear is that Harvard will accept the wrong kind of Indian--the mixed-blood or the urban Indian who claims his Indian heritage only when it's to his own advantage and does not, like themselves, plan to live on a reservation. But if they do succeed in bringing the "right kind" of Indian here--those from the reservations who have not had the advantages they themselves have had--they may find themselves confronted by a new problem: how to soften the culture shock an Indian who has never "straddled the fence" will probably experience here...
...year later, Pittenger became associate director of athletics, and Matthews hoped to succeed him. But Harvard hired a replacement from Detroit. Matthews was hurt but not bitter, and he devoted himself to a massive re-designing of all the office's publications, from football programs to statistical brochures. When his Michigan boss left a year later, Matthews had no trouble getting...
With the Brezhnev visit now delayed indefinitely, there is a new opportunity for Kissinger to push ahead with talks leading to a further pullback of Israeli troops on the Sinai and Golan fronts. Cairo's mood last week reflected a faint new hope that he might succeed...
Under the Finger. Though written centuries apart, the Bach and Falla concertos succeed because neither tries too hard to make the harpsichord do things it is not supposed to do. "Too many 20th century composers think of the harpsichord as a piano or as a percussion instrument. They expect you to bang very hard on it," says Kipnis. The impressionism of Debussy or Delius, which calls for a dreamy, sustained tone, simply will not work on a harpsichord. A stride bass can sound downright laughable. The technique of the harpsichordist exists entirely in the fingers, not partly in the arms...