Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole undertaking, to our mind, is like having a devotee of Eddie Guest decide whether or not Shelley's poetry is immoral; or like a Fence Club Sophomore telling Ely Cuthbertson how to play contract bridge. No doubt if the social-science texts being scrutinized fail to go down the line for Parson Weems and the cherry tree story, the good manufacturers will conclude that American youth is being inculcated with totalitarian propaganda...
...Wherever men today fight and die to resist tyranny and aggression they man outposts of our freedom, making more difficult, more distant the threat to our shores," stated the telegram. "To permit them to fail for the want of weapons that we can supply or for the lack of resources that we can furnish, would be not only to disregard our own national interests but also to turn our backs on the support and encouragement of those freedoms that have been . . .the foundation of our republic...
Aircraft and automotive technicians doubtless could shoot some holes in it. None could quarrel with the fact that U. S. aircraft production of military combat planes up to last week had failed to reach 500 a month, much less 500 a day. None could fail to welcome fresh, aggressive thinking...
...armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor one. The fustiest officer in the U. S. Army could hardly ignore the lesson, nor fail to see that U. S. airmen and tankers were certain to demand a large and possibly dominant place in the new Army...
...fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...