Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many women, as well as men, are physically clean," mused Columnist Elsa Maxwell rather abruptly, "and although they may bathe twice a day they somehow fail to look any cleaner than if they hadn't bathed. Now why does this particularity exist in the human race?" She didn...
TIME is not dispassionate about news. It cares about what's going on in the world, and it hopes that its readers care. TIME, seeking a truthful summation of the news, knows well that it can be wrong. But the possibility of error is no excuse for failing to try to communicate the sense of the news. The people will act (or fail to act) on whatever information they have. They are not allowed to wait until "all the facts" are in, and computed by machines not yet invented...
Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded. It is a faith for a Lenten age. Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility. For, in the name of courage, which men have always rightly esteemed in one another as the indispensable virtue, he summons Protestants to seek truth...
Leaping at that open question last week, Ohio's Bob Taft promptly urged U.S. support for a "moderate" U.N. police force, a U.N. decision on arms for Palestine which the U.S. should follow. Said Taft: "If the United Nations fails to enforce its decisions, or if the great powers fail to back up those decisions, the United Nations will sink into insignificance as did the League...
...Wrote Kansas' Senator Clyde Reed to his constituents last week: "If the Marshall Plan should fail of passage . . . the Republican candidates in November would not carry a state east of Ohio or any state on the Pacific coast. Under such circumstances, defeat for the Republican Party in November would be a blow from which it would be very difficult to recover...