Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open competitive examination will be held to determine the suitability of the applicants, in which they will be expected to show specialized study in one of these fields. The professional questions in the examination for Junior Administrative technician will fail in the field of public administration...
...typewritten words on the back of a penny post card which had come in his morning mail. "I assume," it began, "that you forgot the appointment I made for a tutorial conference last Monday afternoon. . . ." The words acted like a cold shower on Vag's consciousness. . . . "Please do not fail to appear this afternoon at two o'clock. The assignment, as you know, is . . . " Vag's eyes widened from half-sealed slits to round marbles. He looked at his watch. Twenty minutes of two. The assignment was some impossible-sounding psychology book. It didn't matter. No time...
...interventionist camp, and even fresher from the heaviest victory for any Roosevelt World War II policy move, the crashing 328-67 vote last week for passage of the $5,985,000,000 new Lend-Lease funds. If the House whooped through the Armed-Ships bill, the Senate could not fail to be impressed. This was the strategists...
...brought my army back. Whenever I go out to battle and fail to bring my army back, you will know that I lost...
...some of the most exciting U.S. prose since Melville; into mind-wrenching gusts of irony, fury and scorn; into tedious stretches of self-indulgent introspection and childish philosophy. These are caused by Agee's determination to be ruthlessly faithful to his own thoughts and feelings, even when they fail to make sense. His chief failure is one Photographer Evans scrupulously avoids: he clumsily intrudes between his subject and his audience, even when the subject is himself...