Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulldozer shove started the old streetcar down the hill toward Aachen. The engineers, watching from the bleachers of the ridge, saw the squeeze play fail: the rocking trolley blew up before it reached the town. Maybe it shook up a few Nazi machine gunners. Well, they had another. The second improved model exploded prematurely, destroying the launching ramp...
Britain could not fail to be aware of this development, but she showed no undue concern. Nor was she likely to, so long as she kept her imperial health and Russia kept her political head...
Pennsylvania's level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...
Song Suckers. When the sucker has swallowed the bait by submitting his song, he gets an enthusiastic letter stating that his lyrics are indeed hit material, that with a good tune and publication they can scarcely fail to score. Expenses incidental to publication-tunewriting, arranging, etc.-will, of course, cost a small amount, which must be sent in advance. The sucker sends the money, and is gratified to receive 20 printed copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that...
...product of any battle. . . . No one ever knows what happened." Before the firing stops, the "lying legend" starts on its way to the public. On the Sicilian beachhead it looked at one time as though the U.S. ist Division might be driven into the sea and the whole invasion fail. When Belden went to G-2 for information, "an exceptionally intelligent lieutenant colonel" simply handed him "the bare telephone conversations and orders of that day." Said he: "This is the only thing that contains any truth. . . . We are making out a report now, but it is already so different from...