Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stinging bees have been raised for some years in the U.S.-for example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...
...know whether my fright is from my own sense of inadequacy or from the physical danger involved. I think it is from the fright of failure. I cannot bear to fail. It would be much better to die tomorrow night than to live and fail these kids and in the battle for peace...
Alcoholics Are Made. Though many other factors are often involved, Dr. Richardson blames much alcoholism on parents who weaken their children's egos by withholding needed attention, affection and approval-or by overdoing it. How parents fail...
Even the effect of weather on the nation's victory gardens, whose tiny crops collectively add much to the U.S. food pile, may be serious. Many such gardens have been damaged by rain and late frost. Should the backyard farmers fail to replant and secure good crops, there will be a heavy additional drain on commercial food sources...
Only in the Battle of the Bulge, where the tanks, halftracks and tank destroyers lay strewn in the woods almost as thick as acorns, did their boast fail. There the job took six weeks...