Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according...
...Germans succeed in pinning the Russians before they reach Smolensk, the Red Army may still attempt more drives farther north. But in spite of those drives, the Germans will have succeeded on the northern front, as they had down south, in solidifying lines which had become dangerously liquid. Without Smolensk, the Russians cannot hope for really important gains in the north. When the lines and Russia's muddy earth are both solid again, then one side or the other will doubtless try, try again...
Under Dimmy the Inquirer rapidly became a bright, aggressive paper. Dimmy changed type faces and make-up and used more pictures; he campaigned for such things as free school lunches and against such things as the public sale of fireworks. So well did Dimmy succeed that an appreciative Moe Annenberg presented him with a $1,000 platinum Swiss watch so fancy and begadgeted that, said office legend, a little man popped out of it on the hour to announce race results at Hialeah...
...minutes from Park Street, and there's nothing else to do, "The Crystal Ball" may prove to be somewhat of a mild sedative. And speaking of sedatives, the associate feature is one of the "let's play doctor" series, concerning Dr. Gillespie's search for a new assistant to succeed Dr. Kildare, who isn't mentioned for obvious reasons. Oddly enough, it's called "Dr. Gillespie's New--Assistant." Barry-more playing around with chemicals again...
Weismiller's project, "Creative writing in the field of poetry" will succeed his earlier work in that field which included a volume of verse published in 1936; "The Deer Come Down." Miss Edinger, famous for her articles published in German, French, and English, is a refugee scholar and will discuss the tooth replacement in Amphibia and Reptilia. Nabokov was born in Russia and is a scientist as well as novelist, his most recent novel being "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...