Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the blackout curtains, physicists got their work orders. A few, horrified by what was planned, refused the summons. But most went to work, knowing that discovery could not be stopped, that the U.S. and its scientific allies must make it first. Many hoped that they would fail and that their failure would prove forever irrevocable...
...Russia's open backing of the anti-Government Tudeh Party. At Teheran's House of Russian Culture, a Tudeh member was recently permitted to make a savage attack on the Iranian Government. Nothing that happens in one part of the Near East can fail to affect the rest of that region, Russia's actions in Iran, especially taken together with her recent demands on Turkey, were important to more governments than Iran, more people than the Iranians...
When such simple remedies as aspirin fail, the standard treatment has been shots of ergotamine tartrate (Gynergen). But Gynergen, derived from ergot, a drug used to stimulate uterine contractions in childbirth, is almost a disease in itself. It slows the pulse, raises blood pressure, occasionally causes gangrene, may cause vomiting, pains in the legs, uterine cramps and suppression of menses...
...Unlike the old high school in which no one was compelled to stay if he could not or did not wish to do the work, the modern high school must find place for every kind of student whatever his hopes and talents. It cannot justly fail to adapt itself, within reason...
...appearance and peacetime behavior. They wanted to get the rougher elements out and the disciplined troops in before the British and Americans came. And they wanted the British and Americans to see how well they were cleaning up and running the city. This caused some officers to fail to carry out their orders to turn over authority to the British and Americans...