Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before, a bill to merge Eire's transport system had come up for its second reading. The opposition parties (which altogether-but they are seldom all together-have 71 seats to the 67 of De Valera's Fianna Fail) asked postponement until an investigating committee could complete a report on ugly rumors of fat profits in transport stocks. The committee wanted to know how speculators got hold of confidential information, supposedly known only to high Government officials. Brusquely De Valera rejected the suggestion, but on a vote he lost, 64-to-63. Next day an astonished Dail...
...vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages next winter may be "more acute," rationing stricter than before...
...Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
...railway, along with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...
...official summary from Naples pointed out: "The temporary destruction of railway lines and the incidental destruction of rolling stock and supplies cannot fail to influence the progress of the Russian advance into the Balkans. A secondary result is to confuse further the political situation in the puppet countries striving to avoid entanglement in the German collapse." Some observers thought the Balkan raids alone might eventually justify Allied strategy in landing in Italy...