Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, concentrating on guerrilla warfare-memoirs of French resistance officers, Tito's partisans, Irish rebels. Their first attempt at an underground, the Organisation Spéciale, soon had 3,000 recruits, ample stocks of hidden weapons, too ambitious and complex a hierarchy, and a card file of members. Result: when French police once got a lead into the O.S., it swiftly collapsed...
...professional army, the F.L.N. sticks to guerrilla tactics and suffers when it does not. Sleeping by day and fighting by night, it moves in 40-man combat groups, attacks only when it has a French unit at a disadvantage, withdraws in the face of any major French force. Result is that although the overweight French army has won some local successes-notably the stamping out of terrorism in the casbah of Algiers by General Jacques Massu's hardened paratroopers-most of its time is spent in vain pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp opponent...
...Conakry, when, as De Gaulle sat in icy silence. Touré thundered: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery!" That night the outraged general abruptly canceled a diner intime with Touré. Outraged in turn, Touré went all out in his campaign against the constitution. Result: more than 95% of his people voted...
...politicians to their leader, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, was respectful but restrained: a fine man in the House of Commons, they said, but hardly a man to appeal to the people. He looked too sedately Edwardian; people did not know what to make of him. Then, partly as a result of his U.S. visit and the widespread rebroadcast of a humanizing TV appearance with Ed Murrow, the British public-and Tory leaders too-began to see their chief in a new light...
Promotion. "It is neither an overgeneralization nor an oversimplification to state that in the faculties of major universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned...