Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible mass. He warns against trying to use small men subtly, in the enemy's manner. He thinks that the talents born of Japanese smallness might be paralyzed by pure size and shock. But if Americans tried to beat them at their own game they would not only fail; they would also intensify Japanese scorn. On the whole, however, Eckstein is content to leave the winning of the war to warriors...
Remembering the above, I fail to understand why you would run the story "Bluenoses" (Feb. 22), in which you refer to Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson as "obstreperous...
Said General Douglas MacArthur, who earlier had warned that Japs were massing north of Australia: "Our decisive success cannot fail to have a most important effect on the enemy's tactical plans. His campaign, at least for the time being, is completely dislocated. . . . Merciful Providence has guarded us in this great victory." General MacArthur's communiques neglected to mention General Kenney...
...splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Said the Washington Post: "The disturbing fact is that the Government has winked at the waste of manpower in both its own agencies and private industry for so long that its appeals for more work sometimes fail to make a serious impression on workingmen...