Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians fail to reach their winter objectives, they may have another chance when the ground dries in about two months. But the longer the Russians are delayed the more meaningless any eventual victory in the Donets-Dnieper salient would become. As in Tunisia, the Germans in south Russia-whether they eventually lose the campaign or not-have everything to gain by upsetting the Red Army's timetable. They would be better able to consolidate new positions, train much-needed reserves, replace some of their lost materiel. The next few weeks may well determine the outcome of the Russian...
...Salt Lake City has probably been in more engagements than any other warship. Jap communiques have "sunk" her twice and left her burning once. They must have known better, for no sailorman could fail to identify her at a glance...
Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
...mill subscribers went a frank letter: "I ask your immediate help. . . . Within the next two months we must raise $25,000. If we fail . . . the Nation will [die]. . . . Won't you fill out the enclosed membership blank and send it back with a check...
...President] now for three successive terms. . . . We are going to oppose him for a fourth term. But if, to oppose him, we have to make a more objectionable ring-tailed jackass of ourselves than nature made us, by saying that what F.D.R. does well is bad, then we shall . . . fail...