Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness, first Baron Moyne, to succeed Lloyd both as Colonial Secretary and as Leader in the Lords...
Another yawning gap was opened in the Varsity football coaching staff yesterday by the resignation of Dick Harlow's chief assistant, J. Neil "Skip" Stahley, who will succeed Tuss McLaughry as head football coach at Brown University, it was announced yesterday...
...claimed to have inside information passed word to foreign correspondents that the attempt would come early in March -a good reason for doubting that it would come just then. But it was taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased German remarked last week: "We'll take England by employing the same method we used in taking Eben Emael"-the key Belgian fort, which was subdued by treachery, flame, bombs, parachutists, gliders, above all, by surprise...
...sign was the appearance of massed parachute troops in The Netherlands and of more long-range guns on France's north ern coast, presaging an end-the-war attack on Britain, which the Marshal believes probably will succeed. Another sign was the increasing influence of Admiral Jean Darlan, who has had no love for the British since Oran. Admiral Darlan may soon be named second in command to Marshal Petain and his successor if the Marshal dies. Last week Ambassador Leahy had a talk with him about the French Fleet...
...World War I has ever been that big; none has ever had so much practice for such a bitter defensive job. One regional command let it be known last week that it had studied and practiced against 120 distinct invasion hypotheses. The British expect that the Germans may succeed in establishing a few beachheads. If they do, the defense counts on 1) the Navy to cut off water-borne supply, 2) the R. A. F. to resist airborne supply and reinforcements as well as attacks from three air armies totaling 18,000 planes, 3) the Army to crush the invaders...