Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are limits to what these men can actually accomplish. This conference is a preliminary: the positive accomplishments must be left to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when & if they meet. But there is no limit to what Hull, Eden and Molotov can fail to accomplish. If they do fail-and they may -their failure will be reflected in the fires of World War II, and in that war's aftermath. If they succeed, Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin will then have their historic chance to make World War II a victory for all the Allies...
...portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...
...bald head, he spends much time leaning on the railing in the rear of the House. There, and in the cloakrooms and offices, he buttonholes his colleagues, lobbying for legislation which he feels must pass, sympathizing, advising, counseling. Sam's approach is disarmingly personal; when all other arguments fail, he says to a recalcitrant legislator: "You will be doing me a big personal favor if you vote for this." His difficulties are immense. The White House has been taking on more & more power for a decade. Sam Rayburn's job is to translate into Congressional action the will...
...spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve impulses that prevent involuntary contraction; 3) the paralysis, which may be permanent, results when contraction impulses fail to get through...