Word: failing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...
Stan already has his own business. As new co-owner of Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...
...committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus, radio wire services largely fail in "their obligation to write brightly, intelli gently, informatively, entertainingly." The committee found that stories for the broadcasters were sometimes grey-bearded on arrival - anywhere from sev eral hours to several days late...
...world's non-Communist labor has had no international voice and no mechanism for united action. Dubinsky wanted an outfit to speak for the legitimate gripes of world labor. "If you don't, the Communists will," says Dubinsky. "They can say, 'why even your leaders fail...
...Beale's dry notation that somebody had once tasted whale's milk and found it rich, Melville turned into "The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries." From Beale's remark that "we cannot fail to be impressed with a truly magnificent idea of the profusion of animal life which must necessarily exist in the ocean's depths," Melville constructed a passage for those who like philosophical meat on their narrative bones...