Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fail to mention the greatest cause of poverty: the fact that two poverty-stricken people are encouraged to multiply the problem by producing new poverty cases. Politicians might consider an annual cash bonus for nonproduction, the amount to double for the second year, triple for the third, etc. This might eventually get parents off relief and reduce the future relief load...
...false or obtrusive. One believes that such preparation would be sufficient for a real-life as well as a fictional undercover agent. Once in East Germany, the man's mistakes diminish our hopes that somehow he will succeed only to excite our curiosity as to precisely how he will fail...
...School does its best to dispel rumors that if a student is seen at the movies more than once a month, he's probably going to fail. By closing the library at 5 p.m. on Saturday, it's presumably encouraging students to have a social life. But in in any event, it is true that to do well on the single yearly exam in each subject, a student must study regularly and thoroughly...
...convey a great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with the heroine killed...
...will insist, on the other hand, that whites who would not join the virtually all-Negro FDP group will not join the integrated MDC group either. And right now it is probably true that even the more moderate faction would fail to attract the kind of white support that provides eager campaign help...