Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without U.N. swords to back the plan which the General Assembly had penned, Palestine partition would fail. Last week the harassed U.N. Palestine Commission publicly acknowledged that steely fact...
...York City last week, 18,000 high-school students wrestled for three hours with questions like these. They were taking the state's semi-annual history examination, required for graduation. Usually 5% fail to make the passing mark of 65; this time there were twice as many flunks. And graders had marked the pa pers as tolerantly as they could...
...imagine the gentlemen in the Kremlin have high hopes this democracy will fail." President Conant ventured, "and if I were in their place I should seize every bit of evidence that tended to supports this view. I should eagerly await news that indicated the American people . . . had lost confidence in those historic principles which had guided their developments in the past...
...other department heads would try to set up similar schemes with the farm implements, petroleum equipment and construction materials industries. Harriman doubted whether the plans would turn out to be anything more than talky-talk. But industry, which knew that controls might be imposed if the voluntary ones fail, had a big stake in making the plans work...
...youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring (Michael Wilding), a gentle loafer who handles most of Wilde's sharpest lines, does all he can to get him off the spot. These characters, and others, are so brightly and efficiently presented that they become archetypes for their...