Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the gas tax solution fell through, the governor proposed his second alternative--the absorption of 12 1/2 percent of the annual loss by 14 "fringe" communities that do not actually have the MTA service but whose residents frequently use the MTA system. But these towns fail to see why they should have to pay such a percentage if the rest of New England, which certainly benefits from the MTA, has to pay nothing. Besides that, the metropolitan cities and towns will still have to cover 87 1/2 percent of the losses...
...through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long-distance circuits were knocked...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
When Munch arrives here next fail, Bostonians will meet a distinguished-looking man of great personal charm and sociability. His success with the all-important ladies around an orchestra seems assured. Although his spoken English is at the moment extremely tentative, his French manner more than makes up for it. (In France, affectionate females dubbed him "le beau Charles," and from all signs, the Boston press is not going to let him forget...
...right. The war story, for most of its path, crashes like a hurtling tank through the forest of events. But the hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...