Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week: "To score tactical and temporary victories by adroit maneuver can always be described as 'realism.' But these little gains may prove disastrous in the long run. . . . The 'temporary' arrangement with Admiral Darlan could be justified as a clever one, but . . . intelligence without integrity will fail in the end, and the people know it far better than do some of our politicians...
Though others fail the war can still be won. Had he failed the war could not be won. I nominate Marshal Semyon Timoshenko for Man of the Year...
What happens when the novelty of wearing the uniform wears off? While most girls probably wouldn't desert, we fail to see how their hearts could be in their work...
...cities of Russia were falling to the Germans. The true extent of those reserves, known only to the Red Army command, is one of the factors which will determine the course and outcome of the winter's battles. And if worse comes to worst and the winter offensives fail, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov and the rest of the Red Army command will save enough of their reserves to try again...
Both undergraduate articles somehow fail to click. "Rome Denied," by Peter Ward Fay '45 combines clever phraseology with a thesis that is neither original nor stimulating, for he holds that Italy's trials during the past seventy years are a reflection of a second-class power striving vainly to reconstruct the grandeur that was Rome. Samuel Perry '45, on the other hand, has an important subject but fails to express it well. Perry is defending the Negro press, an institution well worth both defense and encouragement, but whose existence and importance are virtually unknown except among its own subscribers...