Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Front. Behind this conception of massed effort, and the great effort necessary to prepare it, is a fundamental tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...
...Cleanup Mission. To French West Africa would go Pierre Charles Cournarie, named Governor General to succeed ex-Vichyite Pierre Boisson, who had been stanchly supported by the U.S. It was an important appointment, one which Gaullists could hail as a signal victory. As the Gaullist Commissioner of the Cameroons, able, youthful (48) Pierre Cournarie had done a model job. In West Africa, recruiting ground of the famed Senegalese troops, he could do much to clean up Vichy's traces...
...course everybody can't play bridge and even some people who thing they are do not entirely succeed in convincing others with whom they play. For that last hour before lights out there are many other diversions beside bridges playing. We can run over to the Club if see the little woman, grab a short been and do a little yedelling; the Glee Girl will help in that regard if we ever get it going...
...Balkans could be followed if Turkey came into the war. It would have to be swift, for Axis armies are poised on the far side of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and could block the Allies at these straits if they reached. them first. A land advance could succeed probably only with Turkey's permission...
...Attempts to iron out production "bugs" and smooth the flow of raw materials. (To succeed at this, Jimmy Byrnes will have to work hard...