Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragic result of our Government's ineptitude and lack of policy in Asia has been to allow the Soviets and their allies to make rapid progress in liquidating their problems there and completing their expansion in the Orient so as to be free to turn all their effort to the subjugation of Europe...
Then they went on, leaving the future U.N. in a peace disturbed only by an unintentionally symbolic sign which read: "Serge, this is the equipment. Lancaster will help, he's the expert." There it all was: international effort, the expert, the equipment-everything, indeed, but the common purpose...
Harlow also described the play that set up Yale's field goal late in the game. On fourth down on their own 40 and trailing by 14 points, the Crimson tried a lateral pass play from punt formation. The effort failed principally because of a bad pass from center, which in turn was unavoidable because John Florentine's arm had been hit earlier and was stiffening up. Chuck Roche tried to pick up the ball in a hurry and his pass was incomplete...
...praise and blame for a daring effort belong to Dudley Nichols. O'Neill, an old friend, would not permit the film to be made unless Nichols produced, directed and wrote the script. All credit for risking $2,250,000 in the venture belongs to RKO, which may have some trouble getting its money back. As one critic put it: "Average moviegoers are going to talk back to this picture...
...cold mountain air of the upper Himalayas pervades this novel of north India, giving it a quality, like its setting, far removed from the luxuriant misery of the plains. It is a novel notable for a fair effort at balancing sympathies between