Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mice & Men. In May, a U.S. correspondent in London had observed: "The most brilliantly conceived and thoughtfully worked out plans may fail utterly if the weather conditions on D-day and several days thereafter should prove unfavorable...
...gambling everything, but already in this battle your gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and fortitude, he will completely fail...
...this good news, Brigadier General Hines tacked a gloomy postscript: 52% of those who go into business for themselves fail within two years...
...much longer will they have to fight? How far must they go before the Nazis cry quits? There are many imponderables, such as the weight and power of the expected Russian offensive on the East Prussia-Vistula front, which cannot fail to affect German resistance in the west. Ike Eisenhower said last week that he was optimistic, but added: "I hope to prevent myself from becoming complacent." If anyone had asked Omar Bradley, he would probably have answered with one of the homespun phrases he utters so often: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating...
Will Durant, giving full, colorful treatment to Roman culture and everyday life, does not labor the modern political and social analogies. But no reader of Caesar and Christ can fail to miss them...