Word: fails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the college generation do not even care to play the game. Although they will vehemently deny, offendedly, they charge of being a conformist, they fail to present evidence in their defense. Beneath it all lies the content, self-as-sured attitude of fitting into the pattern, the smug satisfaction of worrying about little and caring about even less...
...simply mixed. A fourth way, and to Dr. Sargant the most important for human analogy, is to wear a dog dowri by subjecting it to excessive work (on a treadmill), upsetting its stomach with irregular feedings or bad food, or inducing a fever. Even if the first three fail to break down a "calm imperturbable" dog, the fourth will work, according to Pavlov...
Manager Laverock must also be prepared to take the stage when the vaudeville acts fail to show, throw out unruly customers ("A pioneer be, but leave no marks") and assume a host of other duties, i.e., "Frinstance, the Ladies' gets stopped up, don't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and put your 'ands into 'em. A little bit soap, a little bit water, everything's gone and forgotten. For dead babies, inform the police." The plot, such as it is, concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper...
...months the taunt as well as the talk of Paris, Dutourd's book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart of an enraged patriot. On Dutourd's lips, the famed French proverb becomes: "To understand all is to forgive nothing...
...realize the dangers involved," he said, "[but if the U.S. rejects the Poles], we will either be forcing a suffering nation into a fruitless revolt or we will be forcing the Polish government to again become hopelessly dependent on Moscow. If we fail to help the Poles, who else in Germany, Czechoslovakia, or anywhere else behind the Iron Curtain will dare stand up to the Russians and look westward...