Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million during the 1966-67 fiscal year. To prod British industry into selling more abroad, the government devised a new system of capital-investment grants and formed a commission to promote mergers among companies that are too small to compete on an international scale. If these tonics fail, Whitehall will prescribe stronger medicine. "I repeat," said Wilson, "that whatever measures are needed to strengthen our balance of payments and keep sterling strong will be taken...
...legislators-who do their drinking in "private clubs" in Jackson-to repeal the law on their own. Instead, he asked them to authorize a referendum by March 15. Drys won the last such vote, in 1952, by 140,681 votes to 80,222. If repeal should fail this time, warned the Governor, he would be forced to "dry up this state like the Sahara...
...plot remains a model of wicked ingenuity, marooning ten wrongdoers with an anonymous, homicidal host who intends to bring his guests to justice one by one. Properly done, this old-fashioned brand of carnage can hardly miss. The remakers of Indians fail in every impossible way. By shifting the scene from a godforsaken island to an alpine retreat, they are able to engineer a couple of spectacular deaths among the crags, but the mood of boxed-in menace is efficiently destroyed. Held to a laggard pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey...
...contrast are the vegetarian and assorted rebellious Haitians. These people do have a purpose in life, and I guess we are supposed to notice how much richer their lives are even though their projects fail. But this obvious meaning sticks in our throats. Greene has so infused his narrator's personality with ennui and detachment that we cannot imagine his caring about anything under any circumstances, with any upbringing. And the people who are committed are all such pitiful, blundering fools that we almost prefer the narrator to them. Perhaps their lives have more meaning, but when forced to compare...
...Tigers fail to end Harvard's 47-match winning streak at Hemen-way Gymnasium this afternoon, the Crimson will probably romp for at least another two years without losing a match...