Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distorted, the subjective, Eakins' devoutly objective work looked solid, sober and durable as life itself, a testimonial to the best in his country's deep and simple honesty (as well as to the limitations of that honesty). People who had once thought Eakins scientific, dull, dogged, could scarcely fail to warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail to see that in his taciturn, tender palette range he was as superb...
When the counting ended, the Taoiseach (Gaelic for Prime Minister; pronounced tee shock) and his Fianna Fail had a clear margin of 14 seats in the Dail instead of a deficit of four. Even if all other parties voted solidly against him, De Valera could win on any foreseeable issue. Now he had what he had demanded: power to match his responsibility...
...films, picture books, simple readers - enough to provide them with what the Army calls "functional literacy," a standard equivalent to a 4th-Grade education. The average soldier takes eight weeks to absorb this training, and is then sent to a regular training center. Of the 10% that fail the course, a negligible few may have special capacities, such as ability to handle a bulldozer, and are allowed to remain in the Army...
...half months before Pearl Harbor that TIME carried a column-long story about the "marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail"-and went on to describe penicillium notatum...
...Foully, unfairly, in secret and undemocratically this decision has been taken and hurled at Parliament and the people," roared choleric Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, leader of Fine Gael, the principal opposition. Retorted De Valera, out to get a solid majority for his Fianna Fail: "I have no apology to offer. A minority government has responsibility but not power...