Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Curtis LeMay, who retired in 1965 as Air Force Chief of Staff, last week described this limitation as "the ultimate in military blindness," added that if the "calculated risk" of heavier bombing were to fail, "then we must be prepared to fight Red China." Dwight Eisenhower said that he "would not automatically preclude anything"-including, by implication, nuclear weapons-"that would bring the war to an honorable and successful conclusion...
...study, undertaken last Spring by the Office of Tests, is also aimed at investigating the kinds of pressures grades place on undergraduates, and the effect of alternative systems such as pass-fail programs or grade-free courses...
...Honors candidates in Bio 40 generally receive A's while those who take the alternative program for honors -- graduate courses -- might face stiff competition for grades. There should be an "equalization" of grading, perhaps by instituting the pass-fail system...
...into a tumble that built up to 146 revolutions per minute after repeated but vain attempts to fire the balky engine. As the ship's solar panels whirled wildly, they were unable to fix on the sun and generate electricity, and the spacecraft's batteries began to fail...
These pieces show Updike at his best: his style is exquisitely crafted, his ear is sound, his eye is sharp, and the words dance like water over bright pebbles. If some of the stories fail, it is because they are echoes rather than original noises. The effect is rather like listening to a whole evening of madrigals...