Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon completion of the course under V-1 status, qualified NROTC students will be commissioned and their enlistment status terminated. Those men who fail to qualify for commissions will be transferred to whatever rating they are fitted to fill, or, if they wish, they will be discharged from the Service...
...TIME'S account of Hitchhiker Allen's bomber ride was based on an interview with him sent out by the Associated Press. His reply to Mr. Bullitt's letter: "I got my first opportunity to talk to Bullitt direct in Accra, but I fail to see how he could have missed knowing that I tried to get aboard both at Cairo and Khartoum, since I appealed to [ex-Minister to Bulgaria George H.] Earle, also Bullitt's secretary, to use influence to have Bullitt take...
...dollar diplomats. It is a world war in a completely literal sense, and we are losing it. The smug politicians in Washington who confidently assure us that we will take the offensive "late in 1942 or in the spring of 1943" and that we must wait until then, fail to realize that by 1943 our cause may be hopeless. Even if it were impossible to speed up production further, which has by no means been proved, there are other ways to take the offensive than by military action...
...these playwrights have, almost without fail, been unable to translate the crisis of our time into good propaganda plays. "Candle In The Wind," "Flight To the West" and "There Shall Be No Night" are honest attempts to explain in dramatic terms the threat of totalitarianism. They have failed in this attempt because they are composed of conjecture and cheap dramaturgy and Hollywood symbolism. Even in propaganda plays we demand a certain amount of university, a level of meaning above that of action and character alone. University implies more than the minute, the particular a Nazi uniform on stage does...
...officer will not desert his men. In the field, a general's authority is supreme. Men who know MacArthur say that in Luzon, as at St. Mihiel,* he will fight his campaign precisely as he pleases. Even if he were ordered back, he might well, say Army men, "fail to see" the order...