Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Cross said that if the Allies fail or give evidence of incurable inertia, Italian entry into the war may well be accelerated, and prospects of German victory increased...
...Japanese have restrained themselves from taking the Settlement by force and have tried only political graft and craft. Each time they fail they want the area more. Last week they failed again...
Evans makes the weakling Richard understandable, turns him-as his fortunes fail-into a pathetic if not sympathetic figure. Since the play is short on action but rich in language, it offers Evans his greatest chance to exploit his best asset-his melodious High-Church voice. When Evans took Richard II to Broadway early in 1937, this story of an abdicating English king gained piquancy and pathos because another English king had just abdicated. It goes on being effective with no help from the Windsors...
Even accepting the Tribune's most radical assumptions, and considering the possibility that Germany might defeat the Allies and possibly be in a position to send an army of aggression to Greenland, the, conclusions drawn by the Tribune still fail to hold water. Faced with the choice of sending ships and planes to Europe now or possibly having to fight Germany in our waters in the distant future, the interventionists have drawn a bad hand. It would be comforting to believe that the gentlemen of the Tribune were vulnerable to the charge of faulty logic rather than that of insidious...
...People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave $100,000 for Curley. For Curley was a caterpillar, discovered by a boy named Stinky, which danced whenever it heard Yes, Sir, That's My Baby...