Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the neatest and most ironic flourish. Lady Flora Gordon, a handsome Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind. She comes daily to stand in communion with the statue and watch the devout...
...Dylan, poet and good fellow, a few steps away from Mr. Chips or Robert Frost or De Lawd in Green Pastures. In short, Mr. Williams's choice of material and his rendition of it have a tinge of the sacdharine as well as a bit of pleasant nostalgia which fail in part to hit the personality of the man or be very characteristic of his work...
...formal address, titled "New Dimensions of American Foreign Policy," the Massachusetts Senator pointed to a failure of Administration leadership in foreign relations. "If initiative falters at the pinnacle," he said, "if Administration action is only reflex action, then foreign policy cannot help but fail...
...areas where capital punishment has been abolished, statistics fail to show any increase in the homocide rate. In some of the American States where abolition has existed for some time (Michigan repealed in 1857), the rate has actually decreased slightly. In any case, the frequency of homocide in these areas seems to indicate that the rate is affected entirely by factors other than the death penalty...
Taking a man's life bears the burden of unquestionable proof. The opponents of abolition fail, therefore, to present such evidence. In a liberal and humanitarian society, the final punishment cannot be justified in the absence of such proof. When the question comes before the people eventually in the form of a referendum, it is to be hoped that they too will realize these considerations...