Word: failed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still one of the best sea tales ever written. Huston's movie may fail to capture the story's deepest meaning, but it does an admirable job of recreating Moby Dick both as a thrilling adventure story and as a portrayal of the whaling industry...
...must say that if Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
...revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly chat with Charlie. But the mission seems doomed to fail; unless Chaplin antes up the debt voluntarily (most unlikely), there is little of his left in the U.S. to grab besides some old derbies, canes and turned-up brogans...
...rich; although a vulgar sort, Madden is Judith's last hope for a husband. The parish priest is a hard, harsh, unimaginative zealot called Father Quigley. Like all such spinsters, Miss Hearne has rich and happy friends-Professor Owen O'Neill and his family, but these, too, fail her because she comes to understand that her Sunday visits are permitted by charity, not offered from love...
...accredited leaders of a nationalist movement are deported or imprisoned, the result is always a resort to violence. Leadership passes to the extremists, the voices of reason are silenced, murderers are regarded as heroes, and, if executed, are held to be martyrs . . . In the long run, the government always fail to enforce law and order and are obliged to retrace their steps and negotiate with the people they have denounced . . . In Cyprus, as in Singapore, the government are losing the substance of Britain's position for the shadow of illusory defense advantages...