Word: failed
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...weary of endless bloodshed, De Valera urged a cease-fire and formed a new party, Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). In 1932, the party triumphed in elections for the legislature, the Dail, and Dev took power as head of the government. He quickly set about shaving away the vestiges of British power, including the annual payments to former British landowners for their expropriated Irish holdings. He was also forced to break with those who demanded more extreme actions, and in 1936 banned the I.R.A...
...lifelong reader of the Los Angeles Times was outraged. "You are the Paul Revere of the oncoming avalanche of libertine behavior," he wrote in a letter to the editor canceling his subscription. Lest anyone fail to recognize the disgruntled reader's name, the Times responded last week by identifying him in a cartoon lampooning his decision. It was hardly necessary, for everyone knows that Edward Michael Davis, 58, is the city's chief of police. Tilting with the Times-and anyone else who runs up against his puritan ethics-is standard operating procedure for Davis. To him advocates...
...President suggested that he might not pursue détente forever if the Russians fail to reciprocate. If progress is not made in the SALT II talks, he said, he would have no choice but to raise defense spending, now at the "bare minimum," by $2 billion to $3 billion over the next two years. "This is one place where second best is worth nothing...
...embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates who had come to Kampala for serious business...
...time gap in The Winter's Tale is necessary. Whereas the tragedies focus on the fail from prosperity, this play and the other romances emphasize the stage of rebirth, regeneration or recreation that is part of the full cyclical pattern--and this demands plenty of time. We also must not look here for the gradual development we find in the tragedies; we are obliged to make many assumptions, and to look upon the characters more as allegorical representations than as traditional dramatic personages. Any winter's tale, after all, is at heart a fairy tale to be related around...