Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urals took in a 100-mile drive through dust and desert wind to see one of the new state farms and a visit to the steel centers of Magnitogorsk and Sverdlovsk, where Nehru showed more interest in the geology museum than in the blast furnaces, but did not fail to note the rigid and extensive security measures, the number of hefty Amazons armed with Tommy guns, and the general attitude, "ask no questions and expect no answers." Headed westward again, Nehru stopped off at Leningrad. There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken...
...head, and seldom have I read an article so deeply comprehensive-and sympathetic-of all the ills that plague France at the present time as reflected by French youth and interpreted through American eyes. Even after years of close and happy association with my French friends, I still never fail to be appalled by the very typically Gallic shrug of the shoulders accompanied by the timeworn and threadbare excuses which reach back to the War of 1870 and the Prussian occupation of Paris...
...tribute to the U.N founders was sober and factual: "That there have been failures in attempts to solve international difficulties by the principles of the U.N. charter, none can deny. That there have been victories, only the wilfully blind can fail to see. But clear it is that without the United Nations the failures would still have been written as failures into history. And, certainly, without this organization the victories could not have been achieved; instead, they might well have been recorded as human disasters. These, the world has been spared...
...Those who claim on any ground the right to refuse should make good the sincerity of their claim by resigning; and if they fail to do so, they should be removed," the Board has said. The Superintendent of Schools has been granted a considerable amount of discretion in deciding whether or not to require teachers to name their associates; but once he does decide to request information about others form a teacher, that teacher faces the starkest of alternatives--either he must make the decision to inform or he follows the dictates of conscience at the risk of almost certain...
...golf, tennis, and baseball fail to occupy the reunioner at Essex, facilities will be ready for transportation to Singing Beach swimming and Manchester Yacht Club boat trips. Gloucester and Rockport tours are also scheduled...